There's this other bloke who goes by the handle ’Turing’ who keeps yabbering on and on about what programmers can't make a computer do but he doesn't even have a CS degree, so avoid him and don't feed the troll. ;)
Since McCarthy passed, I've often wondered if a draft of Part II (which AFAIK was never published) might exist somewhere among his papers. If so, I hope his academic heirs find it and release it, if only for the historic value.
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