@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:Not funny ha ha, but geekworthy
Most definitely. And the point it makes is dear to my heart. I was very sad to see how little respect Dennis Richie got outside of hardcore nerd-dom. The same is true of John McCarthy, coiner of the term
Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the LISP programming language that powered most AI research from 1959 to the early nineties. He, too, died in October 2011. Today he's practically un-talked-about outside the MIT museum in Cambridge. To think that he didn't even make
this cartoon frustrates me deeply. Thanks for posting it, though!
