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It was influential. My mentor, Sal Martirano, once told me with a twinkle in his eye that Joel Chadabe, who developed M, once inquired about Martirano's work with algorithms, hinting that it was likely that some of those ideas found their way into M. Who knows.

You never know, seems like it's a smaller world than one might think, so ideas do get spread in interesting ways.