Black banner posted. To honor Roger's passing. A time to reflect.
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Roger Hui has died
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#22Met him a long time ago when J was relatively new, through a friend. Didn’t know anything about him except he was a friend colleague of my friend. And we was such a mellow, soft-spoken, nice guy. Who I learned a few months later was both seriously smart and had made this thing that had inspired me.
Real loss.
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#23Roger was a colleague of mine when I worked at IP Sharp. Lovely guy. My condolences to his family. Rest in peace.
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#24I’ve been seeing more and more of these unfortunate postings lately. I often only hear of these contributions or even the languages themselves after the person passes on, which is unfortunate. Hope his family is ok.
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#25What chat would he insist on?
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#2668 years young. Fuck cancer (my father died from it at 71).
RIP.
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#27I wanted to learn more about "J" and this person, it is a nifty language
Some people might enjoy this thread on "A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16393873
Also this answer here at math stack exchange https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/856153/the-j-progra...
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#28Roger made a major contribution, in a quiet way.
Thoughts are with all those who miss him.
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#29I met Roger briefly as a presentation on J at SFSU.
He seemed like a mellow, straightforward person and I enjoyed how he explained a one-page long set of c-macros that expanded into the initial J compiler (written by Ken Iverson or someone else).
I remember asking him, "How do you debug something like that" and he said "don't make mistakes".
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#30I first ran into J from their ICFP submission one year. The J implementation did quite well in the contest despite being shockingly terse, and running on an interpreter. That prompted me to figure out why, and I learned a lot of interest if unconventional ideas as a result.