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best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Netley Abbey, Southampton 07970 844083 On 1 January 2017 at 10:41, Victor Churchill <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very sorry to hear this. I've not been to a LUG meet since moving away > but I recall many happy meetings with Christopher in earlier times. He was > a real character, witty, erudite and charismatic as well as very > knowledgeable in many areas, not just software. I recall one evening when > he proudly showed me the (very impressive) work he had done on the web site > he managed for the string quartet in which played the viola. I always > looked forward to meeting him. He will indeed be sadly missed. > > > best regards, > 웃 > Victor Churchill, > Netley Abbey, Southampton > 07970 844083 > > On 31 December 2016 at 11:29, Natalie Masse Hooper < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -- 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
