Richard P. Gabriel Alive
Steered Common Lisp's design and wrote Worse Is Better — the essay that explains why C and Unix won.
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Wrote 'Worse Is Better' (1989) — the essay on why Unix/C won over Lisp — and founded Lucid, the Common Lisp company.\n\nHis essays on Lisp's decline are the field's honest autopsy; the 'Gabriel's thesis' debate still runs.