He didn't make me a Lisper (I'm more a Haskell fan these days), but reading Slava's Lisp articles years ago was a significant part of what set me on my current

He didn't make me a Lisper (I'm more a Haskell fan these days), but reading Slava's Lisp articles years ago was a significant part of what set me on my current career path. He helped get me into functional programming, which got me a contract job [1], which is how I met one of my current co-founders. [1] http://martin.kleppmann.com/2009/09/18/the-python-paradox-is-now-the-scala-paradox.html http://martin.kleppmann.com/2009/09/18/the-python-paradox-is...