From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "WJ" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Daniel Weinreb Died ((1959 ~ 2012) Lisp Programer) Date: 7 Nov 2012 02:21:10 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352255112 12507 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2012 02:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 02:25:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 03:25:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVvKT-0001Rf-Fx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVvKK-0004gs-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:25:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews2 Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p1b03111ca6a4902b4ded164ecb07b9b5644569df14ee96181adf76975c3db4e4.newsdawg.com User-Agent: XanaNews/1.18.1.6 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 121106-1, 11/06/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Received-Bytes: 1837 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.lisp:311760 comp.emacs:102697 gnu.emacs.help:195238 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87566 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > Daniel Weinreb Died ((1959 ~ 2012) Lisp Programer) > http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Daniel_Weinreb_died.html > > plain text version follows > > ------------------------------ > > Daniel Weinreb died today. Cancer. Aged 53. (≈1959 ~ 2012-09-07). > Obituary at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=159710898 Here's a humorous response he made to Kenny Tilton: From: Daniel Weinreb Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: is oo oversold? Lines: 46 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:49:33 GMT Ken Tilton wrote: > > ... ... > > Richard Gabriel denounced OO as the cause of the dot bomb crash during > an ILC keynote. Thought you should know. > > kxo > > Richard Gabriel just devoted the most recent year of his life to being the program chair of the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications conference. If he doesn't believe in object-oriented stuff, I'm a monkey's uncle.