Kent Pitman

I served as International Representative for the United States to the committee SC22/WG16, charged with producing an international standard for ISLISP. During this time, I served as Project Editor, overseeing the successful completion of this international standard.

I conceived and created all aspects of this webbed version of ANSI Common Lisp, which was intended to make this important document accessible to users of the Common Lisp language world-wide. I took the initiative to create the document as I felt it should be. I wrote a custom TeX to HTML translator for this specific purpose. I conceived of the HyperSpec's use as an advertising vehicle for Harlequin (originally, later rebranded for LispWorks Ltd. when the asset transfered) by making it cost-free… Show more

I conceived and created all aspects of this webbed version of ANSI Common Lisp, which was intended to make this important document accessible to users of the Common Lisp language world-wide. I took the initiative to create the document as I felt it should be. I wrote a custom TeX to HTML translator for this specific purpose. I conceived of the HyperSpec's use as an advertising vehicle for Harlequin (originally, later rebranded for LispWorks Ltd. when the asset transfered) by making it cost-free and I guided the Harlequin legal team in making an appropriate copyright to match. The original work, done at the birth of the web in 1994, was highly innovative in a number of ways, though because of the newness of the web, it took two years to convince my company to publish it. The nature and structure of the document was designed to be enduring, as illustrated by the fact that it is still in regular use and highly regarded today, many years later. Show less

I made numerous technical contributions to this standard, but never directly, always through the formal voting process of X3J13, the subcommittee tasked with creation of this standard. I served as the second of two Project Editors for the final four years of this decade-long project, overseeing the successful completion of an 1100-page document and its subsequent public review. Acting in the role of Project Editor, I was trusted to neutrally express a large number of interconnected decisions… Show more

I made numerous technical contributions to this standard, but never directly, always through the formal voting process of X3J13, the subcommittee tasked with creation of this standard. I served as the second of two Project Editors for the final four years of this decade-long project, overseeing the successful completion of an 1100-page document and its subsequent public review. Acting in the role of Project Editor, I was trusted to neutrally express a large number of interconnected decisions voted upon by X3J13 without injecting technical choices of my own. Show less