Oh, interesting. Larry Tesler was mentioned quite a number of times in relation to cut & paste back in the earlier days of the Macintosh. Unusually, through my light experience in classic Macintosh programming, I have not seen his name mentioned in the documentation I was reading, though others have back in the heyday.
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