[ih] John McCarthy

[bob.hinden at gmail.com (Bob Hinden)]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/science/26mccarthy.html

I never meet him, but have fond memories of reading his "LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual" while I was working on a LISP interpreter for a GE415.  I recently discovered the book is available on Amazon.

Bob

On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Guy Almes wrote:

>  We note with sadness the death of John McCarthy.  He is not strongly associated with the Internet, but his vigorous leadership, especially at SAIL, contributed to a thriving ARPAnet community, and his ideas about how an infrastructure of consumer-oriented time-sharing systems contributed to some of the application ideas we see now in the consumer-oriented Internet.
> 
>  Any comments?
> 	-- Guy