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