10-25-2011, 09:50 AM
Another seminal figure in the computer revolution has died.
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R.I.P. John McCarthy
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10-25-2011, 11:34 AM
(format t "I'm sorry to hear that...") Edited: 25 Oct 2011, 11:44 a.m.
10-26-2011, 10:39 AM
Strangely for a mechanical engineer, I have had exposure to LISP. We used to call it, "Lots of Irritating Silly Parenthesis". It was used as the scripting language for AutoCAD software. RIP John McCarthy
10-28-2011, 05:36 AM
That is shame. His LISP language seems to have been an important influence on HP's RPL, where HP removed the need for parentheses by making theirs a post-fix functional language drawing on their own RPN and Forth. I still get a buzz out of passing named and anonymous functions around as parameters, e.g, when using the R language or one of my HP calculators, rather than just manipulating data.
Nick Edited: 28 Oct 2011, 5:39 a.m. |
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