[NTLK] John McCarthy

[Laurence W Brown]

Beautifully written, good sir - lovely...

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On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:13, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:

> ~~~ On 2011/10/28 01:21, Salva Perugorría - VEB Xenon at xenon_soft at yahoo.es
> wrote ~~~
> 
>> Jobs, Ritchie, McCarthy... :( This year is being
>> terrible.
>  
> 
> 
> Salvatore, it's tragic losing all these people who gave us so much.  Now
> that I've gotten older I finally understand why my folks started saying
> things like "Well, we're all getting on now".
> 
> Dennis Ritchie was 70, John McCarthy was 84.  Seventy is young nowadays but
> still not unbearably young, at least to those of us who remember older
> relatives dying in their 70s of "old age".  Eighty-four is still regarded as
> "a good innings".  Jobs was only a few years younger than I am, and
> doubtless he'd still be with us if he hadn't gotten cancer -- heck, maybe
> he'd still be with us if he'd known as much about medicine as he did about
> running Apple.  
> 
> But no matter how young or old they were when they died, it was too soon.
> It was always going to be too soon.
> 
> 
> 
> Shalom. 
> Christian 
> 
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