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General Category => The Dead Pool => Topic started by: Wheezer on October 25, 2011, 11:54:36 AM

Title: Stop the world, mark and sweep
Post by: Wheezer on October 25, 2011, 11:54:36 AM
John McCarthy, NIL (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/john-mccarty-artificial-intelligence-pioneer-dies-at-84/2011/10/25/gIQALnwpFM_blog.html).
Title: Re: Stop the world, mark and sweep
Post by: Wheezer on October 25, 2011, 02:37:08 PM
Quote"[McCarthy] really encapsulated what computation meant," says Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, pointing to modern languages like JavaScript and Python as Lisp's successors.

Sure thing, Peter.

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