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My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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