Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong
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Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-27 Thread Staller, Allan
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John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-26 Thread John Gilmore
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

Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
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