Eliot, On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Bob, > > First, I share your admiration for John McCarthy (after all, who does > not?). In that spirit, my understanding was that LISP was an homage, > and as such should not be viewed in a negative light. You're of course > right that we do stand on shoulders– many. I reviewed some of the early drafts and the closest thing I could find to an acknowledgment related to the chosen name was in <draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt>: In particular, we would like to thank Dave Meyer for his clever suggestion for the name "LISP". ;-) Bob > > Eliot > On 10/27/11 11:08 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: >> John McCarthy died a few days ago. I won't try to summarize his >> accomplishments myself but thought that the obituary in the NY Times was >> very good: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/science/26mccarthy.html >> >> "John McCarthy, a computer scientist who helped design the foundation of >> today’s Internet-based computing and who is widely credited with coining the >> term for a frontier of research he helped pioneer, Artificial Intelligence, >> or A.I., died on Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 84. >> .... >> In 1958, Dr. McCarthy moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, >> where, with Marvin Minsky, he founded the Artificial Intelligence >> Laboratory. It was at M.I.T. that he began working on what he called List >> Processing Language, or Lisp, a computer language that became the standard >> tool for artificial intelligence research and design." >> >> With his death, I have a request. >> >> I request that the relevant authors and IETF working group rename what it >> currently calls "LISP" to something else. To put it politely, the IETF >> should be standing on the shoulders of the giants who have laid the >> groundwork of the Internet, not stepping on their toes. >> >> Bob >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
