Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong 
(cdr (cdr '(John McCarthy)))

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Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-27 Thread Staller, Allan 
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-john-mccarthy-20111
027,0,3450542.story?track=rss

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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.


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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 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

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