This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one. Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.
John McCarthy Has Died
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Re: John McCarthy Has Died
#92What a pity.
I sense a black bar coming.
The last few weeks have been terrible, one icon after another has fallen. What is different from other fields is that computing is still a young enough field that almost all of its luminaries except for the earliest ones are still alive.
I fear the avalanche has only barely begun, and at some point the frequency of these will become high enough that either we will stop to notice or we will have that black bar on here more or less permanently.
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#93Re: John McCarthy Has Died
#94Isn't there something about deaths happening in 3s? 1. Steve Jobs 2. Dennis Ritchie 3. John McCarthy
Let's hope that it is limited to 3. I get terribly antsy just thinking about who else in computing has reached their 70's and 80's.
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#96Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says "He died peacefully in his sleep last night."
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#97Re: John McCarthy Has Died
#98Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says "He died peacefully in his sleep last night."
Replying to your original reference: http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128584398642757632
Just to add to that - I've had a message from Wendy saying that McCarthy's daughter had 'phoned her with the news, and Wendy is the ultimate source of the wikipedia edit/entry.
Re: John McCarthy Has Died
#99I am deeply saddened with this loss to our community. He was such an influence to computer science as a whole.