Friday, November 4, 2011

RIP C and LISP

Two very influential profiles in the computer science community and in software engineering has passed away.

On the 12th of October the father of C, Dennis Ritchie passed away; and on the 24th the father of LISP, John McCarthy, passed away. I encourage you to read up on their achievements during their life-time.

Imagine a world without C -- the worlds first really portable language.

Imagine a would without LISP -- the Maxwell's equations of computer science.

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