John McCarthy turns 80

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Responding to Richard Dawkins's pestering his fellow atheists to "come out", I mention that I am indeed an atheist. To count oneself as an atheist one need not claim to have a proof that no gods exist. One need merely think that the evidence on the god question is in about the same state as the evidence on the werewolf question.

Hopefully this will outrage lots of founders so they will refuse to use Lisp, thus giving me another competitive advantage.

I would like to take this opportunity to recommend C#, PHP, and ASP.NET to my prospective competition. Oh, and especially Java.

> C#, PHP, and ASP.NET to my prospective competition. Oh, and especially Java.

Those sound interesting. Could you please tell us something about their implementors' religious beliefs? Politics too, if you have that information.

(happy-birthday)

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