/prog/ - John McCarthy is dead

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 16:25

;_;

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 16:29

It's not that one who is dead.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 16:41

(rest-in-peace 'john 1927 2011)
;_;

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 17:04

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!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 17:34

>>4
There's a site that reports news from Wikipedia? I don't think that's how it's supposed to work.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 18:02

>>3
"John" seems to be more appropriate here.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 18:07

Let's hope his abomination dies soon too.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 18:58

>>7
Not nearly soon enough.
Not nearly so.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 19:27

Don't give a shit, as long as THE SUSSMAN continues to live.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 19:35

Speaking of THE SUSSMAN. He made his talk at Strange Loop 2011 today, when the hell are they going to upload it?!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 20:11

doesn matter at all to anyone ever get over it you fucking =baby

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 20:27

It's a hoax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) cites:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84/

which cites:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151233

which cites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

we have circular resoning.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 20:40

>>12
[u][b][i]RECURSION[/i|[/b][/u]

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 20:57

>>12
It also cites
https://twitter.com/#!/stanfordeng

Maybe someone got into their Twitter account and decided to perpetuate the rumour.
Maybe.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:00

>>14
twitter is very reliable source, indeed.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:04

hey everyone I'm skeptical how cool am I?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:05

>>15
It is if it's the official Stanford Engineering twitter, fagstorm.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:06

>>16
You won't be so cool in a few minutes when this hits a /prog/-approved news source !

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:15

>>16
You have to be ironic to be cool these days.
Please turn in your hipster card with security on the way out.
kthxbai

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:16

>>19
kthxbai
That was ironic, right?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:26

who gives a fuck? really?

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.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 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.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 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?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 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.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 21:52

This is a programming community

you must be new here

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 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.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 23:14

Rest in Parentheses.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 23:42

>>26
you make me sick

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 23:58

>>26
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haha, you witty bastards

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-25 0:13

>>26
you make me sicp

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-25 0:16

>>28

sorry

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-25 2:50

>>30

terribly sorry!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-25 3:15

>>12
As expected from John McCarthy.

John McCarthy is dead

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