This is very sad news indeed. Weirdly enough, I don't remember that conversation Ralph is referring to! But I do remember many conversations about languages and etymology.
On 31 Dec 2016 11:02, "Ralph Corderoy" <[email protected]> wrote: Morning Terry, That is sad news. > In addition to his career in software development, He'd done a lot of programming on older small systems, in a dialect of C if he was lucky enough to have a ported compiler, and plenty of assembly languages, and was always interested to discuss the minutiae of anything, from instruction sets upwards. Even when it was more effort for him to talk in recent months, I'd be telling him about some new development or interesting artefact that I'd looked out between meetings and he'd make the effort to explain connections with his earlier experience. > Chris was also an accomplished musician and campanologist. He knew a bit about languages too, I don't know if due to a classical education, and we'd often touch on some bit of etymology, or how to say a Latin phrase. I remember one amusing evening where a polite disagreement ensued over how and why a bit of French should be pronounced, with Natalie. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-01-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-01-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
