Richard P. Gabriel is an American computer scientist known for his work in computing related to the Lisp programming language, especially Common Lisp. His best known work is a 1990 essay, Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, which introduced the phrase Worse is Better, and he devised the Gabriel Benchmarks, published in 1985 as Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems, which became a standard way to benchmark Lisp implementations.
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He was born in 1949, in the town of Merrimac in northeastern Massachusetts to two dairy farmers.
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Richard P. Gabriel (born 1949) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computing related to the programming language Lisp, and especially Common Lisp.
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