Thanks. This is surprising, he was really young and this is sad. Stef
I used to enjoy Bill's perspective on things coming to Pharo from Dolphin. It would seem there is unfortunate news. > http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesville/obituary.aspx?pid=159883187 > > Wilhelm "Bill" K. Schwab Ph.D., 48, of Gainesville, Florida, died Friday > September 7, 2012 at a friend's home, after a determined battle with cancer. > [...] His software was far more reliable than the commercial operating > systems on which it ran. He even wrote his own "object request broker," a > specialized networking software tool, using Smalltalk, an exotic computer > language. With his tool, he created, implemented and maintained a fully > functional handwriting-capable anesthesia medical record system that was well > ahead of its time, and was used for years in actual patient care in multiple > operating rooms. His software never required "downtime." > > regards -ben >
