John McCarthy 1927-2011
sit tibi terra levis, John. LISP and the world view it embodies will, I suppose, be his monument; but he changed everything he touched. The very full obituary in today's New York Times ends by citing one of his favorite apothegms: Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense. --jg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011
johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: > sit tibi terra levis, John. > > LISP and the world view it embodies will, I suppose, be his monument; > but he changed everything he touched. > > The very full obituary in today's New York Times ends by citing one of > his favorite apothegms: > > Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense. some mainframe connection ... I worked with his wife on System/R, she is discussed here: http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Vera.html longer winded thread/post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#40 John McCarthy http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#44 John McCarthy other posts mentioning original relational/sql implementation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011
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Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-john-mccarthy-20111 027,0,3450542.story?track=rss -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html