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highflyingbird

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Another Great Loss!
« on: October 24, 2011, 11:33:13 PM »
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2011, 12:53:08 AM »
What's going on? First Jobs (the figure head for the "pretty" PC), then Denis Richie (father of unix and C), now this!
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2011, 01:01:01 AM »
Quote from: irneb on October 25, 2011, 12:53:08 AM
What's going on? < ... >

natural attrition ... but that doesn't make the loss any less sad.

RIP.
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2011, 02:10:29 AM »
It was a great man!
Hopefully, he will have his own, recursive paradise.
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2011, 02:33:04 AM »
You know, perhaps it's something to do with the times. Most stuff happened in the 50's to 70's ... nothing truly "new" was invented after that. Most "new" things are simply built on top of the old or "improved" the old. E.g. there's no really "new" operating system since the 60's - they all still use the same old concepts, and in nearly all instances they're actually just updates of those old systems. Programming languages haven't "improved" much either, AFAIK the last new idea in programming was OO (late 70's to early 80's). But that's a whole other discussion.

So all the "greats" seem be starting to swap the physical for the spiritual.

Also hope a recursion ever-after for McCarthy :angel: . Though I'd hate to think Ritchie's in any kind of pointer eternity!  :o
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irneb

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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2011, 02:38:17 AM »
Quote from: irneb on October 25, 2011, 02:33:04 AM
Programming languages haven't "improved" much either, AFAIK the last new idea in programming was OO (late 70's to early 80's).
Scratch that! That's only when it started to become main stream. Actually it seems the idea of Lisp's Atoms is one of the earliest examples of "encapsulation", and that was in the 50's!

Edit: Simula seems to be the first "truly" OO language. Looks a lot like Pascal doesn't it? And that's yet another great who's gone  :(
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 09:04:04 AM »
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2011, 10:05:44 AM »
This board wouldn't even be here if it weren't for him.

RIP.
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2011, 12:04:21 PM »
Perhaps this could be viewed as a tribute to McCarthy: http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
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Re: Another Great Loss!
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2011, 12:11:29 PM »
I just "love" this:
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Over time, the default language, embodied in a succession of popular languages, has gradually evolved toward Lisp.  1-5 are now widespread. 6 is starting to appear in the mainstream. Python has a form of 7, though there doesn't seem to be any syntax for it. 8, which (with 9) is what makes Lisp macros possible, is so far still unique to Lisp, perhaps because (a) it requires those parens, or something just as bad, and (b) if you add that final increment of power, you can no longer claim to have invented a new language, but only to have designed a new dialect of Lisp
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