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Clapping madly.

Mid 80’s I moved to IBM Research and got involved with Lisp after that. IBM was always big on Not Invented Here so we had our own version. Started another newsletter and organization for Lisp before I pulled that one into SIGPLAN, too. Never enjoyed the language, myself, though my husband has always been passionate about it. But LOVED the people.

http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/lisp-ptrs/lp-i.1.toc.htm

X3J13 Common Lisp - Jun 1989 - San Jose - Joseph Blanchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvU3pJbZBj0

I enjoy LISP, but I have to spend my time resources on languages that my customers will pay me to implement. Java is mostly what they want for backend web services. I use Python for data science and machine learning apps.

My former co-worker, Mark Watson, has a nice book titled, "Loving LISP". Mark continues to update the book adding more useful content.

I am very much impressed at your contributions to the languages in use today. Your work contributed about the same time as the likes of Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup and Betrand Meyer and David Korn. I had the pleasure of meeting all 4 at software development conferences. Thank you for your efforts.