Kent Pitman
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Kent M. Pitman is the President of HyperMeta, Inc. and has been involved for many years in the design, implementation and use of Lisp and Scheme systems. He is often better known by his initials and login, KMP.
He was a technical contributor to X3J13, the ANSI subcommittee that standardized Common Lisp and contributed to the design of the programming language. He prepared the document that became ANSI Common Lisp, the Common Lisp HyperSpec (a hypertext conversion of the standard), and the document that became ISO ISLISP. Kent champions a new paradigm for standards called Substandards; as a background task, he's working on a prototype, but because of his busy work schedule he has not yet deployed it.
Kent Pitman is also the author of Another Way Out a parody of the CBS Daytime series The Young and the Restless.
He can often be found on the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. Many people value his contributions there because of his authoritative perspective on Common Lisp standardization, others decry his attitude towards open source Lisp implementations and Scheme.