Tom Lord has died
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Tom Lord has died
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#2Seems to have been on HN, but inactive since 2013:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266032 (on Guile[1])
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#3Url changed from https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/, which points to this.
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#4Imagine how angry tlord would have been to find out they put 'open source' in his obituary.
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#5he was not very old. how unfortunate
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#6Damn. I've been meaning to contact him about some old scheme proposals for a couple of years now. He wanted to rebase the language on a smaller core.
He wrote very clear comments on lambda-the-ultimate and did great things with Guile. If anyone has references to work he published please leave a pointer to them.
Brutal reminder to contact people sooner rather than later.
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#7he was not very old. how unfortunate
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#8Is it this Tom Lord: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ ?
It was my first introduction to proper branching/merging support, vs RCS and CVS at the time.
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#9Is it this Tom Lord: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ ? It was my first introduction to proper branching/merging support, vs RCS and CVS at the time.
Yes apparently: https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/
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#10Damn. I've been meaning to contact him about some old scheme proposals for a couple of years now. He wanted to rebase the language on a smaller core. He wrote very clear comments on lambda-the-ultimate and did great things with Guile. If anyone has references to work he published please leave a pointer to them. Brutal reminder to contact people sooner rather than later.
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