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Posted on October 27, 2011 by Sophos

RIP John McCarthy, the LISP creator who sorted out memory mismanagement

“Uncle John” McCarthy, the creator of the functional programming language LISP, died earlier this week in California.

McCarthy pioneered automatic garbage collection, for which we owe him a substantial debt of thanks.

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