[sn41]

If I am not mistaken, he is the researcher behind the actor model. He was also active on HN, I remember.

[gpderetta]

He is and he was: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ProfHewitt .

Probably deserves the black bar?

[inopinatus]

I love how many of these remarks seem to have been piped through

a fmt(1)-ish filter, or perhaps simply manually folded. In conjunction

with the formal clarity he often expresses, they develop

a poetic, almost dreamlike quality.

[wrycoder]

Looks like Emacs with a line width of 72.

[agumonkey]

actor model who was the reason behind the scheme lisp dialect, and contextually, underlying the arc language which runs this website

ps: j-pb above mentions planner, also linked to the logic programming world. damn