doctorate - comp.lang.lisp

vanekl <vanek@acd.net> writes: > Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary > doctorate in science from Harvard. > > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html It was time he gets his doctorate! 60 years to write his thesis? No surprize lisp is not more popular! :-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "Indentation! -- I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!"

vanekl wrote: > Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary > doctorate in science from Harvard. > > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html Cool. And they described Lisp as "still in use today". I guess the smell didn't fool them. kt -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ ECLM rant: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1331906677993764413&hl=en ECLM talk: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9173722505157942928&q=&hl=en

In article <87k5h2zaat.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com>, Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote: > vanekl <vanek@acd.net> writes: > > > Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary > > doctorate in science from Harvard. > > > > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html > > It was time he gets his doctorate! 60 years to write his thesis? No > surprize lisp is not more popular! :-) It was lots of work for him: http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook! -- http://lispm.dyndns.org/

vanekl wrote: > Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary > doctorate in science from Harvard. > > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html And in related news, a fiction writer was on hand to receive an honorary doctorate in letters, J.K. Rowling. You don't have to be a scientist/wizard to earn a doctorate at Havard, you just have to be able to write fictional accounts of the same. Did I mention that we do things a little differently here in the colonies?

vanekl wrote: > vanekl wrote: > >> Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary >> doctorate in science from Harvard. >> >> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html > > > And in related news, a fiction writer was on hand to receive an honorary > doctorate in letters, J.K. Rowling. You don't have to be a scientist/wizard > to earn a doctorate at Havard, you just have to be able to write fictional > accounts of the same. Did I mention that we do things a little differently > here in the colonies? It was interesting to see how much planning went into the series, I believe starting seven years before the first book came out. Makes me feel not so bad about the Algebra software. kt -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ ECLM rant: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1331906677993764413&hl=en ECLM talk: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9173722505157942928&q=&hl=en

Ken Tilton wrote: > > > vanekl wrote: >> vanekl wrote: >> >>> Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary >>> doctorate in science from Harvard. >>> >>> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html >> >> >> And in related news, a fiction writer was on hand to receive an honorary >> doctorate in letters, J.K. Rowling. You don't have to be a >> scientist/wizard >> to earn a doctorate at Havard, you just have to be able to write >> fictional >> accounts of the same. Did I mention that we do things a little >> differently >> here in the colonies? > > It was interesting to see how much planning went into the series, I > believe starting seven years before the first book came out. Makes me > feel not so bad about the Algebra software. > > kt > I think those seven years includes learning to master the craft of writing. She talks about having to write a lot of less than stellar work before she became accomplished. Taking seven or more years to master your craft is not unreasonable, to me at least.

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0200, Rainer Joswig <joswig@lisp.de> wrote: > It was lots of work for him: > > http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg > > That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in > New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook! It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!! Edi. -- Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny. Real email: (replace (subseq "spamtrap@agharta.de" 5) "edi")

In article <u4p86kxv9.fsf@agharta.de>, Edi Weitz <spamtrap@agharta.de> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0200, Rainer Joswig <joswig@lisp.de> wrote: > > > It was lots of work for him: > > > > http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg > > > > That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in > > New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook! > > It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that > McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!! > > Edi. ROTFL :-) -- http://lispm.dyndns.org/

Edi Weitz wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0200, Rainer Joswig <joswig@lisp.de> wrote: > > >>It was lots of work for him: >> >> http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg >> >>That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in >>New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook! > > > It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that > McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!! See those two people standing talking? Left as an exercise is figuring out which of them owned the laptop John was poaching. :) kt -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ ECLM rant: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1331906677993764413&hl=en ECLM talk: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9173722505157942928&q=&hl=en

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