John McCarthy Has Died

Re:John McCarthy Has Died by estel on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:02PM (#3151329)

This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one.

Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by redthrowaway on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:08PM (#3151358)

Agreed. I did a quick Google News search and turned up nothing. Could be legit, or vandalism, but there's really no way to know until we have confirmation.

--EDIT-- Since I wrote this, I've seen one source appear, in Portuguese[1]. It's still unclear whether this story is legitimate, or if they simply copied wikipedia / the buzz surrounding the story.

--EDIT 2-- Globo is apparently the largest media conglomerate in South America[2] and thus unlikely to publish unsourced stories, so this looks (sadly) to be true.

[1] http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizações_Globo

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by vasco on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:47PM (#3151766)

*Portuguese

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by redthrowaway on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:10PM (#3151853)

Fixed, much obliged.

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by damienfir on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:07PM (#3151354)

Yes, there isn't any news about this.

This might be a good way to make people read about this kind of person.

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by kogus on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:24PM (#3151417)

This news site supports the claim (if you translate it): http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by rglullis on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:31PM (#3151453)

They also provide no source, and they published after it was published here. Not reliable.

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by eccp on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:48PM (#3151770)

"Não há detalhes sobre a causa de sua morte" = "There are no details about the cause of death".

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by asolove on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:30PM (#3151448)

Ok, come on. Both here and on Wikipedia people are posting links to blog posts or minor news sites that supposedly "support" the claim. But these are clearly instigated by the original Wikipedia edit itself, so that they don't provide any additional proof.

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by karlzt on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:35PM (#3151713)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccart...

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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by estel on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:37PM (#3151725)

Which cites... this thread. Hello TC!

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