This is true. But David Moon is fairly famous, having worked on Lisp, CLOS, Dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mo

This is true. But David Moon is fairly famous, having worked on Lisp, CLOS, Dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moon) and he was immortalized in the hacker koan: (From http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html) One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each of the cons." Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said, 'I understand how to make a better garbage collector...'" So I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, at least for now. ;-) edit: fixed typo in quote