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Does anyone have a better article? I can't find any other information about it. I found out from the NYC Lisp mailing list, and Wikipedia confirmed it.

Sad, sad, sad day. :(



For what it's worth, it was just posted to the University of Waterloo CS announcement list:

"I just received news that John McCarthy passed away in his sleep a few hours ago; he was at home."


Do you have a source (i.e. link to the mailing list)? Unfortunately the person who added it to the Wiki article didn't add one.


The archives to the mailing list are private, so I can't link. You can see in the wikipedia history that who ever made the edit claims to have received word from McCarthy's sister.


Yeh; unfortunately that's not a strong enough source, particularly for this sort of edit :)

Thanks anyway - I am sure it will appear in time.

Usually stuff like this is legit; but sometimes it isn't. So the policy is to have a reliable source or nothing.


I tweeted at @stanfordeng, hoping that they can confirm.




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