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Thewhistlingwind
October 25th, 2011, 01:04 AM
TechCrunch: Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84 (http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84/)

RIP.

Master of lists...

Gremlinzzz
October 25th, 2011, 02:22 AM
Didn't know of him but like his style :popcorn:
His own labs were run in an open, free-wheeling fashion, encouraging exploration and argument.
R.I.P

cgroza
October 25th, 2011, 03:34 AM
Many great people died lately.
RIP John McCarthy.

JDShu
October 25th, 2011, 04:54 AM
Rip

Daisuke_Aramaki
October 25th, 2011, 05:50 AM
Man, October has been terrible. RIP McCarthy.

danbuter
October 25th, 2011, 06:42 AM
RIP. I'm not a fan of LISP, but it really influenced the computer world.

BeRoot ReBoot
October 25th, 2011, 12:47 PM
First dmr and now McCarthy. A sad month for computer science.

Evil-Ernie
October 25th, 2011, 01:40 PM
Sad news indeed :(

cortman
October 25th, 2011, 01:49 PM
The great pioneers of our field are leaving, one by one. You know we've lived in a pretty remarkable time, when the founding fathers, so to speak, of computers are still here.

RIP, Uncle John.

nvteighen
October 25th, 2011, 01:52 PM
A couple of days, it was Dennis Ritchie... now it's the great inventor of Lisp and AI: John McCarthy.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4387
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/john-mccarthy-father-of-ai-and-lisp-dies-at-84/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151705
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2227204/john-mccarthy-discoverer-of-lisp-has-passed-away

matt_symes
October 25th, 2011, 01:58 PM
Another genius has died. This is a sad time indeed.

My condolences to his family and friends. His legacy will live on.