I knew him back when the EFF was being founded. A great loss.
Jim Warren has died
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#12I loved Dr Dobbs Journal. Used to buy it every month when I was in college and barely understood any of it.
I eagerly awaited every issue. It taught me a lot, in an era where finding information about computers was pretty difficult. I was in junior high school, and none of the books in the school or public libraries covered any of this fancy new "microcomputer" stuff.
Inspired by DDJ, I remember writing my own versions of PILOT and a "Tiny BASIC" with floating point, in Z-80 assembly, a couple years before I got my first computer. Probably still have those notebooks somewhere, I'm sure that code is terrible :-)
I'm grateful to DDJ for its liveliness, breadth of subject matter (okay, "randomness"), and simple enthusiasm for teaching people about personal computing.
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#13> One fewer curmudgeon. We're going to have to work extra hard to keep the curmudgeon level up. I’m doing my part for The Cause…
"Look," I once said to a manager of mine, "I've been using this programming language longer than you've been alive..."
Card-carrying member here. :-)
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#14When I was growing up, I saw Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely on PBS. About midway through as I recall there's Jim Warren sitting in a hot tub with a killer view talking about the West Coast Computer Faire and early computing. I had only recently started coding in QBASIC then Visual Basic. Seeing that documentary helped cement my interest in programming and computers in general.
Thanks Jim!
Edit: Found the first clip. Wish I had a chance to meet him, sounded like a character: https://youtu.be/toSRmKKiosQ?t=1790