Dan Weinreb
| Daniel Weinreb | |
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| Born |
Daniel L. Weinreb January 6, 1959 Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Died | September 7, 2012 (aged 53) Massachusetts, US |
| Residence | Lexington, Massachusetts, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Computer scientist and programmer |
| Known for | EINE, Symbolics, Common Lisp, ObjectStore |
| Spouse(s) | Cheryl Moreau |
| Children | Adam Weinreb |
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Daniel L. Weinreb (January 6, 1959 – September 7, 2012) was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the Lisp environment.
Weinreb was born on January 6, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised there by his parents, Herbert and Phyllis Weinreb. He had two brothers, Bill and David, and attended Saint Ann's School.
Weinreb graduated from St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, NY in 1975. He attended MIT 1975–1979 (starting at the age of 16), graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, where he wrote EINE, the text editor for the MIT Lisp Machine. EINE made use of the window system of the Lisp Machine, and thus is the first Emacs written for a graphical user interface. This was the second implementation of Emacs ever written, and the first implementation of Emacs in Lisp. Most of the notable subsequent Emacs implementations used Lisp, including James Gosling's Gosmacs, Bernard Greenberg's Multics Emacs, and Richard Stallman's GNU Emacs.
During 1979–1980, Weinreb worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the Amber operating system for the S-1, particularly the file system and the multiprocess scheduler.
In 1980, he co-founded Symbolics, developing software for the Symbolics Lisp Machine. He also participated significantly in the design of the Common Lisp programming language; he was one of the five co-authors of the original Common Lisp specification, Common Lisp: The Language, First Edition. He worked on Statice, an object-oriented database published by Symbolics in 1988.
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