Roger Hui has died
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Roger Hui has died
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#2This is shattering. I am glad he was able to be with family and friends; Roger was an immense help to me as I learned how to navigate APL/J and build a TSDB in the latter. He never let on that there were any health concerns - I feel guilty now for sending him so many messages over the last half decade.
I hope he gets the recognition he deserves. What he and Iverson have developed is truly unique and powerful.
EDIT: A bit macabre but Ken had his stroke on the 16th of October (2004) and died on the 19th. I know it’s coincidence but my mammalian brain can’t help but ascribe significance.
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#3Rest in peace. Roger Hui deserves a black bar just about as much as anyone.
A (likely incomplete) list of his talks can be found here; if you have the time, you should watch at least some of them: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Roger_Hui
He dedicated a substantial portion of his life to the design and implementation of two of the last truly-unique languages in our field.
We all owe him a degree of debt. If you use numpy, for example, you're actually closer to the heritage of his work than you might imagine; about two steps removed. Start from the top of this thread and work your way down (I am sorry for the source of the link, but none of the frontends cover threads this long and with this many authors):
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#4Sorry to hear this. I've never met him, but know of his work and blog posts on APL & J.
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#5For those of you that are not familiar with Roger Hui, he is the author of "An Implementation of J"[0]. Which is a fantastic resource if you want to know how to implement an array programming language.
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#6RIP and condolences to the people grieving
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#7A fine piece of tribute writing, that.
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#8This is shattering. I am glad he was able to be with family and friends; Roger was an immense help to me as I learned how to navigate APL/J and build a TSDB in the latter. He never let on that there were any health concerns - I feel guilty now for sending him so many messages over the last half decade. I hope he gets the recognition he deserves. What he and Iverson have developed is truly unique and powerful. EDIT: A…
> I feel guilty now for sending him so many messages over the last half decade.
Knowing geeks, I wouldn't be surprised if part of why he didn't let on was because he didn't want to stop having fun geeking out.
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#9I had the pleasure of working with him for several years. I count the paper we wrote together[0] (well, it was mostly him that wrote it, but we worked out the theory together) as one of my greatest achievements.
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#10When I interviewed Arthur Whitney in 2009[0], Roger came up again and again. (He only appears in the transcript once, but Arthur spoke of him several times, always with great fondness.) Roger clearly had an outsized influence on Arthur -- in addition to his particularly close relationship with computer science pioneer Ken Iverson. Condolences to his family -- and to his close friends like Arthur, who I know must be grieving this loss.