Bill Schelter
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American mathematician and programmer
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Mathematics
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#1479
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#361
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Algebra
#27
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#53
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#13
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Computer Science
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#1984
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#906
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Programming
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#44
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#18
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Why Is Bill Schelter Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Frederick Schelter was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. Schelter is credited with the development of the GNU Common Lisp implementation of Common Lisp and the GPL'd version of the computer algebra system Macsyma called Maxima. Schelter authored Austin Kyoto Common Lisp under contract with IBM. AKCL formed the foundation for Axiom, another computer algebra system. AKCL eventually became GNU Common Lisp. He is also credited with the first port of the GNU C compiler to the Intel 386 architecture, used in the original implementation of the Linux kernel.
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