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John McCarthy Has Died
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#32Death date removed from Wikipedia.
Latest edit shows:
"(Protected John McCarthy (computer scientist): Violations of the biographies of living persons policy: Rumors of his death added to page. May be true, but better to wait than edit war."
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#33Here is another link (via google translate) with the news although with no source listed, they may have just been going off wendyg's tweet.
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#34Does 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. :(
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.
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#35Wikipedia has removed this claim now.
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#36Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, and now John McCarthy - maybe some truth that deaths always come in 3's. Quite unnerving. We should propose National Computing Month or something for October.
You can take any arbitrary, long running sequence and partition it into threes. Also: selection bias.
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#37Brazilian source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
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#38This seems to be the original tweet http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128554733714669568
Not to be "that guy", but does she have any connection to him? Why should I believe she isn't just some random that made that up?
As a guy on the internet I am pretty sure she didn't make it up.
I think we will have to wait for confirmation, but not long.
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#39If this is true may have to get CL or Racket set up tonight and do some coding in memory. Ungh what a crappy month for Computer Science.
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#40Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, and now John McCarthy - maybe some truth that deaths always come in 3's. Quite unnerving. We should propose National Computing Month or something for October.
I confess that when the news about Dennis Ritchie was posted, I immediately flashed to the thought, "who's number three?"
Thing is, so did a lot of other people, and tagging John McCarthy's WP page in this way would be just the sort of prank/hoax that would inspire. So the "deaths come in threes" aphorism makes me more suspicious of this, not less.