#define private public - In the presence of genius (06 Mar 2008)

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The company I work for, <a href="http://www.cocreate.com"><nop>CoCreate Software</a>,
was recently acquired by <a href="http://www.ptc.com">PTC</a>. As we are going through
the integration process, I noticed with awe that as a result of the acquisition,
apparently I now work for the same company as Kent Pitman! Wow.
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For those of you with a Lisp background, that name should ring a couple of bells.
[[http://www.nhplace.com/kent/][Kent]] was the project editor for the 
ANSI Common Lisp standard and creator of the
[[http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html][Common Lisp <nop>HyperSpec]].
He also made numerous other contributions to the Lisp community. For example,
he headed the committee which designed Lisp's
[[http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.html][condition system]].

Lisp is still 
[[http://www.clausbrod.de/Blog/DefinePrivatePublic20071229][big at <nop>CoCreate]],
and we have a number of Lisp programmers ourselves. While Lisp's core ideas
and design principles have all become mainstream recently, Lisp as a language
still isn't, and so it's great to find that there are other Lisp holdouts in 
the same company. Particularly if they happen to harbor a legend like Kent Pitman... 
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I sure hope I'll have a chance to meet Kent one day!

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