About the Technical Reviewer

imagesBarry Margolin taught himself computer programming in high school in the late '70s, first on DEC PDP-8 time-sharing systems and then on Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computers, and he learned operating system design by reverse engineering these systems. He went to M.I.T., where he learned Lisp programming from Bernie Greenberg, author of the Multics MacLisp Compiler and Multics Emacs (the first Emacs clone to be written in Lisp); David Moon (one of the implementers of ITS Maclisp and a founder of Symbolics); and Alan Bawden (perhaps one of the best Lisp macrologists). After getting his computer science degree, he went ...

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