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
