In the 1990s, I briefly met Cleve while taking a two-week Matlab course in Natick. During that course that a classmate introduced me to Python, a language where I later became a core developer.

Cleve's papers were an inspiration. I soon published my own matrix package called matfunc. That work was heavily influenced by Cleve Moler and by algorithms in Golub and Van Loan. Even my more recent Python contributions, like the super accurate math.fsum(), math.hypot(), and math.sumprod() functions, have their roots in that fertile time in the Matlab ecosystem. In particular, it newsgroups and lists of papers taught me Cleve's never ending quest to create clean front-ends for numerically sophisticated code.

Thank you Cleve. Your legacy will live forever.