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Forum => Anything else we might add? => Topic started by: CaveGuy on January 12, 2003, 09:33:13 AM

Title: John McCarthy RIP
Post by: CaveGuy on January 12, 2003, 09:33:13 AM
According to a french article on 2003-01-08 by Albert Tissot on fr.comp.lang.lisp



http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=dh8q1vgb9t0jcf7ocdvoo47r3emlmm67pu%404ax.com



John McCarthy (the father of the Lisp Language)

died in Boston on January 04th 2003.



His language will live on forever .........
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Post by: Ryon on January 14, 2003, 06:24:43 PM
May he retht in peath.



(Please, please forgive me!)
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Post by: CaveGuy on January 14, 2003, 06:31:07 PM
I am happy to say, that the french report was wrong,

and Rumors of his death have been rebuted.

John McCarthy of LISP fame has been reported as

being alive and kicking as of 1/14/03.



I guess the value of old LISP code will remain stable for a while longer :)
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Post by: Ryon on January 14, 2003, 07:42:01 PM
I'm speechleth!
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