It's all over Hacker News guys. Hacker News--you know it's a reputable source. Not to mention their source was Wikipedia, so it's all completely legit!
Here's what matters: He lived a good life and he made some brilliant insights into computation.
This is true whether or not he died today.
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Anonymous2011-10-24 21:29
>>21
Yes, but some of us don't have autism, and we care when people die. Of course we're not going to pretend to be all sympathic about a man we never knew, but we are going to show respect to a man whose accomplishments changed our lives.
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Anonymous2011-10-24 21:35
>>22 Of course we're not going to pretend to be all sympathic about a man we never knew
you must have not read any of the threads
we are going to show respect to a man whose accomplishments changed our lives.
you must have not noticed that all your shitposts about "OMG HES DEAD BOOHOO" has just sparked a whole load of "good riddance lisp is shit" type posts. How is bringing it up on /prog/ at all respectful?
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Anonymous2011-10-24 21:43
>>23
Stop assuming I'm everyone else. Three people on /prog/ etc.
Anyway, generally speaking, I ignore the shit posts of 12-year-old /b/tards and bored trolls who think it's funny or edgy to be disrespectful. This is a programming community, and an important programmer has died. Even if this thread only serves to notify a few people, it has done enough.
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Anonymous2011-10-24 21:52
This is a programming community
you must be new here
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Anonymous2011-10-24 22:13
It's sad that he's gone, but he had a long life. Rest in peace John. It's too bad life is a finite list, but each car wouldn't be so meaningful if the list was lazy and infinite.