Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation (1960)

Re:Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Com... by typpytyper on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:15PM (#12160459)

Impressive work by this fellow John McCarthy. I can't seem to find his github page though.

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Re:Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Com... by qubex on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:03PM (#12161203)

There's this other bloke who goes by the handle ’Turing’ who keeps yabbering on and on about what programmers can't make a computer do but he doesn't even have a CS degree, so avoid him and don't feed the troll. ;)

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Re:Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Com... by Canterrain1 on Monday July 25, 2016 @03:19PM (#12160887)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scient...

he died in 2011 with 84

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Re:Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Com... by fennecfoxen on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:18PM (#12161310)

vouched for this dead link (even if it looks like it missed the joke it's more useful than the joke was)

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