Re: The death John McCarthy

Hi,

Like Jari and others I do not see the name as disrespectful and it is unrealistic to believe that the loc/ID speration protocol can be renamed. It has been around for more than 5 years it is just too late.

On the other hand, the name  can be considered an homage by itself.

Luigi Iannone

On Oct 28, 2011, at 09:07 , Hector wrote:

> Jari Arkko wrote:
>> First, as someone who chartered the working group, who has implemented Lisp (the programming language) at least four times, and who views Dr. McCarthy as a hero I disagree that name is problematic or disrespectful. And I almost take offense in the claim that this is a generational thing.
> 
> Well you shouldn't and my apology for stated that. I was informed off list it was an intentional tribute to the language.  It was just one of those things where you saw something that caught your eye and only as a passing thought, "don't these people know its a well known acronym?"  I think I saw there was some relationship, but thought about the long run usage of "LISP" in reference to this work might be confusing.  In other words, should people refer to this work as LISP?  Its rhetorical.
> 
> I'm out.
> 
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