Sad news indeed. It's even more painful considering that the numbers of the infection are sinking but he could not benefit of it. My condolences to the family.
-- bronto Il Mer 26 Mag 2021, 02:34 Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> ha scritto: > I’m sad to have to report that Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN) has > recently passed away, due to complications of COVID. > > Spider released several distributions to CPAN, one of which (Net::Dnet) is > still there. It looks like he tidied up older things. > > Spider originally worked at Digital, where his daughter told me he worked > on Unix (and presumably then Ultrix), and then stayed through acquisitions > by Compaq and then HP, where he had worked on security. > > Looking at early Perl 5 releases, I found that he not only contributed bug > fixes to Perl itself, but was also contributing tweaks to hints files as > well. > > Neil >
