David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and being one of the founders of Symbolics.
Projects
CLOS
MIT
Symbolics, where he developed generational garbage collection algorithms
see also Symbolics Papers & Technical References
Chaosnet
Apple Computer, where he was involved with the Dylan programming language.
ObjectStore, an object database system
PLOT Programming Language for Old Timers, a new dialect of Lisp with the idea of doing everything the right way.
In Pop Culture
David Moon is a charachter in A Story About ‘Magic', a popular tale in hacker folklore that describes an incident at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in the 1970's.