I had good discussions with Allen about the future of VFP; nice debator
with an open and pragmatic mind and, I learnt recently, Francophile.
Condolences to his family.
Thierry Nivelet
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Le 11/10/2017 à 11:32, Dave Crozier a écrit :
Fellow Profoxers,
I have just been told of some unfortunate news regarding our colleague Allen
Pollard (known as Al by most people) who has unfortunately departed to the to
the great database in the sky after a short protracted illness.
Al was a great entrepreneur and specialised in generating systems for airports
to handle all their movements (hence his company name gatwicksoftware) as well
as being a good personal friend. He loved VFP with avengence and made it do
things that other developers said was impossible.
We first met many years ago in the UK at a local VFP developers conference in
London and went on to meet regularly in Prague at the now defunct Devcons. IN
recent years he had moved over to first Spain, then France and had
painstakingly restored a set of gites which I unfortunately never got to visit
despite making many plans to fly over there and land at his local airfield in
Brittany.
After having had contact with fellow Profoxer Jean Laermans recently, I was
made aware of Al's deteriorating condition - he had been diagnosed with an
incurable brain tumour. I tried to contact him via the social media we had used
in the past but to no avail and now find that he was too ill to participate. I
fondly remember our Jam session nights playing guitars when he was in the UK
and our drunken sessions in Prague as well as him constantly being mistaken for
Eric Clapton.
He will be sorely missed on both the programming front as well as the personal
one and I shall miss his banter very much.
RIP Allen
Dave Crozier
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