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Armando

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Another giant leaves us : Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died
« on: October 25, 2011, 03:28 PM »
Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died.

(Two great programmers in the same month...)
"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
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Re: Another giant leaves us : Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 07:04 PM »
Paul Graham is a notorious Lisp enthusiast. A few essays around LISP :
What Made Lisp Different
If Lisp is So Great
The Roots of Lisp (links to actual papers, etc.)

Another article about John McCarthy : John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84

"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
Glenn Gould
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