“Uncle John” McCarthy, the creator of the functional programming language LISP, died earlier this week in California.
McCarthy pioneered automatic garbage collection, for which w
“Uncle John” McCarthy, the creator of the functional programming language LISP, died earlier this week in California.
McCarthy pioneered automatic garbage collection, for which w
Dennis Ritchie, the researcher and computer scientist whom Wired farewelled with the headline The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On, has returned from main(). He died at his home last weekend.