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Fredrik Lundh has died

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Re: Fredrik Lundh has died

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Post by dangoor »

I've used a lot of Python in my career, and Effbot's work was a huge boost on much that I did. ElementTree was a boon when I was building an RSS reader, and PIL was a go to tool for image work.

There has been a lot written recently about "open source being broken", and it's true that the financial model doesn't always work out. But someone like Fredrik who gave so much freely to the community was able to impact people far and wide in a positive way. RIP

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Post by nurblieh »

Fredrik was an important contributor to YouTube over the years and truly one of a kind. In particular, he was critical to the internationalization efforts.

Whenever I ran into him on email or in Zurich, it brightened my day.

Re: Fredrik Lundh has died

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Post by abdulhaq »

WanderPanda wrote: post #13
kowlo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://pasteboard.co/pxT0WYx5nvgg.png cannot translate! edit: thanks @ comments below, need to manually switch to Arabic

Google gives me: „ We belong to God and to Him we shall return“ when selecting Arabic. I‘m just learning Arabic but I‘m wondering why op wrote it including the pronunciation marks which is very uncommon in daily use. I can imagine that it is a quote from the Quran

Yes, 2:156 https://quran.com/2/156 it's said by muslims when something bad happens, especially when hearing news that someone has passed away

Re: Fredrik Lundh has died

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Post by taylorhughes »

nurblieh wrote: post #33

Fredrik was an important contributor to YouTube over the years and truly one of a kind. In particular, he was critical to the internationalization efforts. Whenever I ran into him on email or in Zurich, it brightened my day.

Such a good guy. I remember he raised a very gnarly translation issue one time in which we translated something that said “Share them” that unintentionally translated to “cut them up into pieces and share them at dinner” in Swedish. Fredrik was very passionate in trying to correct the issue in a hurry :)

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Post by vram22 »

noufalibrahim wrote: post #29

The library that I first used which got me stuck to Python was Tkinter. It was a welcome relief from building GUIs using GTK in C. The documentation which I used was from effbot (which seems to be offline now) http://web.archive.org/web/20180802131839/http://effbot.org/... . That led me to making Python my "primary language" when it still wasn't very popular and shaped my career. I think it's hard, if not impossible,…

>I think it's hard, if not impossible, to overestimate how many lives Mr. Lundh's work has touched and improved over the course of his career. RIP.

Yes. The same applies about tons of other people who have put their work out on the net, for years, which all of us benefit from.

Re: Fredrik Lundh has died

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Post by actually_a_dog »

Black bar? I don't think there's anyone who has used Python who hasn't used his work. His website was always amusing, occasionally useful, and frequently educational.

The announcement said it was sudden. I hope it wasn't COVID.

RIP, effbot.

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