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John McCarthy is Dead
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John McCarthy is Dead
Man, this is turning out to be a bad month.
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Just heard about this. The afterlife has gotten a major technological upgrade in the past month. May they all program in peace, free from the constraints of requirement docs and deadlines.
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There is some SERIOUS hacking going on in the afterlife. Watch the fuck out.
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I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age... 
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Lucky Bill Gates.^^
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Re: John McCarthy is Dead
Damn...
I looked at his wikipedia page right after I found out Dennis Ritchie died, and I felt kinda good knowing he was still around...
I guess it's the beginning of the end of the lives of the early pioneers of modern computing. I am very great-full that they have contributed so much to all our lives.
Where was that joke about God making a new version of earth and he's recruiting programmers/computer pioneers or something like that?
I looked at his wikipedia page right after I found out Dennis Ritchie died, and I felt kinda good knowing he was still around...
I guess it's the beginning of the end of the lives of the early pioneers of modern computing. I am very great-full that they have contributed so much to all our lives.
Where was that joke about God making a new version of earth and he's recruiting programmers/computer pioneers or something like that?
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Re: John McCarthy is Dead
It IS a bad month... all these legends passing. 
Logically thinking minds, I think you can guess what their religious standpoints might be.GyroVorbis wrote:I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age...
Who knows what kind of work is going on down there... up there?Trask wrote:There is some SERIOUS hacking going on in the afterlife. Watch the fuck out.
I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is a robot.BugInTheSYS wrote:Lucky Bill Gates.^^
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GyroVorbis wrote:I REALLY hope these guys were all atheists. I can't WAIT to go to hell and join the greatest minds of our age...
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Re: John McCarthy is Dead
This is just getting creepy now.
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Re: John McCarthy is Dead
What are the chances of all these people dying one after another?
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Aha! So you looked at his wikipedia page after Dennis Ritchie died... so whose page did you look at after McCarthy died? Whoever it is, THEY'RE NEXTtreyrust wrote:Damn...
I looked at his wikipedia page right after I found out Dennis Ritchie died, and I felt kinda good knowing he was still around...
I guess it's the beginning of the end of the lives of the early pioneers of modern computing. I am very great-full that they have contributed so much to all our lives.
Where was that joke about God making a new version of earth and he's recruiting programmers/computer pioneers or something like that?
If only I could be so grossly incandescent