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The third major computing figure to die in a month! They say famous people die in threes.

Anyway, I owe my career in software to John McCarthy. My first introduction to programming was through the Apple Logo programming environment in elementary school.

Fast forward many years later, after stumbling along in BASIC, PHP, Java, C#, Ruby, and others. I rediscovered Lisp through Scheme (and The Little Schemer) and Clojure. Little did I realize that Logo was actually a Lisp dialect all along, and while it was the first Lisp REPL I would use, it would certainly not be the last! This return to “the programmable programming language” would dramatically reshape the way I think about programming.

Thanks to John McCarthy for his tremendous contributions to the programming world.