John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away

The first of a few submitters, szo sent in an early report that John McCarthy passed early yesterday. Paul Graham (among others) confirmed: the news was true. And so, shortly after a fellow founder of countless language descendants, goes the founder of the Lisp tree at the age of 84.

Thanks

[V!NCENT]

(print "World says goodbye")

god wrote in Lisp code.

[Inf0phreak]

Obligatory xkcd link [xkcd.com].

And of course "Eternal Flame" [gnu.org].

Yes, the capitalisation of my comment's subject is deliberate.

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Re:Lisp is a fascinating language with honored his

[icebraining]

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/lisp-companies/ [pchristensen.com]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172798/lisp-in-the-real-world [stackoverflow.com]
http://www.franz.com/success/ [franz.com]

Re:RIP and thank you for AI

[betterunixthanunix]

Hm....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software) [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replanning_Tool [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(software) [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHINE_Expert_System [wikipedia.org]

Yeah, this language is useless outside of academia.

Re:Where did he find it?

[Jonner]

No, actually, McCarthy did discover Lisp, at least according to Paul Graham [paulgraham.com].