peter landin, who brought the lambda calculus to programming languages and essentially invented the family of languages including ML and Haskell in his "The next 700 programming languages" paper. who coined/came up with python-like off-sides rule and the term "syntactic sugar"
and of course, namesake of the landin's knot, which i am procrastinating implementing by looking him up
@typhlosion right?? the article continues, "giving support to profit-taking corporate interests and a surveillance state." apparently his dinner parties were one place pride parades were reinvigorated
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-landin-obituary