Re: [9fans] Sad news.

[Christopher Nielsen]

Thank you for letting us know, Dan. I never had the chance to meet
Andrey, but I always respected his coding and knowledge. He will be
missed greatly.

Deepest condolences to his family and those that knew him better.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:35 AM Dan Cross  wrote:
>
> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
>
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let 
> folks know.
>
> - Dan C.
>
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[Sergey Zhilkin]

Dumn news. :( :( :(
R.I.P.
Condolences to all.

вт, 29 сент. 2020 г. в 14:57, :

> Oh no. Condolences to family and friends.
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[Steve Simon]


Oh hell, Andrey was a great guy, we had some long chats on IRC back in the day.

I regret losing contact in recent years.

All my best to his family.

-Steve


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>> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let
>> folks know.
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Re: [9fans] Sad news.

[Francisco Ballesteros]

Sorry to know that.
What a year.
R.I.P.
He will be missed.


> On 28 Sep 2020, at 20:32, Dan Cross  wrote:
> 
> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let 
> folks know.
> 
> - Dan C.
> 
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That is very sad indeed. The 9fans community has lost an irreplaceable member.

Lucio.

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those who had a chance to meet him in person. He was a genuinely good
person.

-Skip

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 11:36 AM Dan Cross  wrote:

> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
>
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let
> folks know.
>
> - Dan C.
>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:33 PM Federico Benavento 
wrote:

> Damn, I’m really sad to hear this, I never met him personally, but he was
> always fine guy to talk to.
> My condolences to his family and friends. :(
>
> On 28 Sep 2020, at 15:32, Dan Cross  wrote:
>
> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
>
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let
> folks know.
>
> - Dan C.
>
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[Federico Benavento]

Damn, I’m really sad to hear this, I never met him personally, but he was 
always fine guy to talk to.
My condolences to his family and friends. :( 

> On 28 Sep 2020, at 15:32, Dan Cross  wrote:
> 
> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let 
> folks know.
> 
> - Dan C.
> 
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Rest in peace. Very sad news indeed. 

;( ;(


El 28 de septiembre de 2020 20:54:19 CEST, Gorka Guardiola  
escribió:
>Yes, very sad. Condolences to the family.
>
>
>On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 20:33 Dan Cross  wrote:
>
>> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
>>
>> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to
>let
>> folks know.
>>
>> - Dan C.
>>

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[Gorka Guardiola]

Yes, very sad. Condolences to the family.


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 20:33 Dan Cross  wrote:

> I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(
>
> I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let
> folks know.
>
> - Dan C.
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[Dan Cross]

I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-(

I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let
folks know.

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Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Wes Kussmaul]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:43 +0100, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
 Sorry, I didn't manage to record my own version of this song, restn in
 peace, Sir
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5LNTTGDKYo
 

This video contains content from Sony ATV Publishing, who has blocked
it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

While we're here, I meant to mention that the Wall Street Journal
article about his life prominently mentioned Plan 9.

Wes Kussmaul

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Wes Kussmaul]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:43 +0100, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
 Sorry, I didn't manage to record my own version of this song, restn in
 peace, Sir
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5LNTTGDKYo
 

This video contains content from Sony ATV Publishing, who has blocked
it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

While we're here, I meant to mention that the Wall Street Journal
article about his life prominently mentioned Plan 9.

Wes Kussmaul

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Akshat Kumar]

Why a mathematician, in particular? I'd hack off... well, nevermind.

Here's what snopes had to say about it:
http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp

In this case, I'd rewrite the penultimate line:
Whenever a man's motivations for a course
of action aren't clear, attributing them to
something [mathematical] usually creates
a tale both plausible and entertaining.


ak

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, erik quanstrom
quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote:
 i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
 alfred just had the money to do something about it.

 - erik

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Peter A. Cejchan]

Rest in peace, dear Sir, ad thank you for C...
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Re: [9fans] Sad News

[comeauat9f...@gmail.com]

C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for various 
reasons.  Two thoughts:

printf(Thank you DMR!\n);

return EXIT_SUCCESS;

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[dexen deVries]

C and linux got me into the great adventure of computing.

big thanks to dmr (Unix uid 7) who made it all possible.

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Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Digby Tarvin]

It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
later..

If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
the top on my list.

DigbyT

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:01AM -0400, comeauat9f...@gmail.com wrote:
 C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for various 
 reasons.  Two thoughts:
 
 printf(Thank you DMR!\n);
 
 return EXIT_SUCCESS;
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[pera]

Turing Award is something like a Nobel prize for computers.

RIP dmr :'(

On Oct 13, 10:18 am, dig...@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) wrote:
 It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
 technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
 credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
 later..

 If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
 the top on my list.

 DigbyT

 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:01AM -0400, comeauat9f...@gmail.com wrote:
  C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for various 
  reasons.  Two thoughts:

  printf(Thank you DMR!\n);

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;

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[Digby Tarvin]

Thats true. I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
Bletchley Park from here). At least the general public know that
winning a Nobel prize is something significant, although even that
gets woefully little media attention here.

DigbyT

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:19:02PM +, pera wrote:
 Turing Award is something like a Nobel prize for computers.
 
 RIP dmr :'(
 
 On Oct 13, 10:18?am, dig...@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) wrote:
  It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
  technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
  credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
  later..
 
  If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
  the top on my list.
 
  DigbyT
 
  On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:01AM -0400, comeauat9f...@gmail.com wrote:
   C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for 
   various reasons. ?Two thoughts:
 
   printf(Thank you DMR!\n);
 
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 
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[tlaronde]

 On Oct 13, 10:18 am, dig...@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) wrote:
 
  If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
  the top on my list.

Culture is what is left when everything is forgotten.
Eminent men are the ones remembered when fashionable ones vanished in
the silence following the buzz.

Denis M. Ritchie will be remembered.

And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.
-- 
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[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
 And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
 science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.

Or there are shameful Nobel prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank of
Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases,
denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press usually
neglecting these details.

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Wes Kussmaul]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:56 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
 I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
 parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
 Bletchley Park from here). 

Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in
Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking
of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers  crew. I was
disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as
an oh yeah, you can see that too if you want outside the main tour.
Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest
anyone :(  And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they
don't share in Bletchley's funding!

Wes Kussmaul

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[simon softnet]

I loved Dennis Ritchie, along with all the folks from The labs, even
though I wasn't even born
at the time of their greatest breakthroughs.
Greatest inspiration I ever had comes from the mentality of those
people in Bell Labs.
Rest in Peace, and all my respect.

Simon.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Wes Kussmaul w...@authentrus.com wrote:
 On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:56 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
 I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
 parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
 Bletchley Park from here).

 Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in
 Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking
 of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers  crew. I was
 disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as
 an oh yeah, you can see that too if you want outside the main tour.
 Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest
 anyone :(  And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they
 don't share in Bletchley's funding!

 Wes Kussmaul

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[comeauat9f...@gmail.com]

On Oct 13, 2011, at 3:19 PM, pera gomesbas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Turing Award is something like a Nobel prize for computers.
 
 
 

Indeed and I'm certain recalling various  IEEE etc awards. On that same note, 
I'm certain he knew his impact, and for many that's sufficient, and perhaps as 
it should be. RIP.

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Digby Tarvin]

  I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
  parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
  Bletchley Park from here). 
 
 Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in
 Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking
 of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers  crew. I was
 disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as
 an oh yeah, you can see that too if you want outside the main tour.
 Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest
 anyone :(  And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they
 don't share in Bletchley's funding!
 
 Wes Kussmaul

True. Even the Enigma stuff seems under funded.

And as I was reading this the BBC in the background was busy
discussing something about Kylie Minogue's honorary doctorate in
health science... :-/

I think I must be autistic because I just dont understand the
priorities of most humans...

Perhaps that is why it is such a loss when someone I actually
could relate to is gone.

DMR did give a talk at my university in Sydney when I was there
many years ago. I remember he wore a cap with a propellor on it.

He certainly will be missed.

DigbyT
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[Charles Forsyth]

It just got some Lottery money.

On 13 October 2011 19:24, Digby Tarvin dig...@acm.org wrote:
 Even the Enigma stuff seems under funded.

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[erik quanstrom]

On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, virik...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
  And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
  science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.
 
 Or there are shameful Nobel prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank 
 of
 Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases,
 denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press 
 usually
 neglecting these details.

i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
alfred just had the money to do something about it.  

- erik

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Wes Kussmaul]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:30 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
 On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, virik...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
   And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
   science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.
  
  Or there are shameful Nobel prizes, like the economics, started by the 
  Bank of
  Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases,
  denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press 
  usually
  neglecting these details.
 
 i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
 alfred just had the money to do something about it.  

Supposedly that's an urban legend, as he - again supposedly - was never
married. Come to think of it that would explain why the prizes exist!

Wes

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Nick LaForge]

 It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
 technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
 credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
 later..

 If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
 the top on my list.

The public's traditional fascination with physics makes an interesting
comparison, considering the relative obscurity computer science
enjoys.

Physics' gifts include nuclear fission, medical imaging, aerospace,
semiconducting... the list is enumerable. Yet the greatest celebrity
among physicists undoubtedly is Albert Einstein, who's contributions
are most significant theoretically (aerospace aside).  So it seems
fitting that a similarly theoretical and precise discipline like
computer science should enjoy comparable status (in opposition to the
actual situation where Gates and Jobs get the glory).  Ironically, the
real reason for mathematics omission by Nobel likely was that Alfred
Nobel thought it TOO theoretical a discipline (see
http://mathforum.org/social/articles/ross.html).  Regardless, it took
people like dmr (and Turing, Church, Shannon, Neumann, Dijkstra,
Backus, Forsythe, Floyd, Hoare, Knuth, ...) to map abstract
mathematical science onto workable machines.

Maybe such a collaborative science doesn't permit hero worship?  Dmr's
own publicly visible accomplishments alone make him worthy of it, yet
his humility was so apparent (I'm not a person who particularly had
heros when growing up).  Perhaps his behind-the-scenes impact among
his colleagues at Bell Labs eclipse even what everyone else can see.

But it's still sad that among those acquainted with Einstein and his
contributions, less than 1% seem to even know who Turing was.

Nick

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Thomas]

I remember his giving a talk about 5 years ago at the time of his

retirement from Bell Labs. He was delighted that he was now  a

contract employee and no longer had to fill out a

certain form annually and answer a question something like:

What have you done for Bell Labs this year?

Free at last.

-Tom West


On Oct 13, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Nick LaForge wrote:

 It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
 technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
 credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
 later..
 
 If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
 the top on my list.
 
 The public's traditional fascination with physics makes an interesting
 comparison, considering the relative obscurity computer science
 enjoys.
 
 Physics' gifts include nuclear fission, medical imaging, aerospace,
 semiconducting... the list is enumerable. Yet the greatest celebrity
 among physicists undoubtedly is Albert Einstein, who's contributions
 are most significant theoretically (aerospace aside).  So it seems
 fitting that a similarly theoretical and precise discipline like
 computer science should enjoy comparable status (in opposition to the
 actual situation where Gates and Jobs get the glory).  Ironically, the
 real reason for mathematics omission by Nobel likely was that Alfred
 Nobel thought it TOO theoretical a discipline (see
 http://mathforum.org/social/articles/ross.html).  Regardless, it took
 people like dmr (and Turing, Church, Shannon, Neumann, Dijkstra,
 Backus, Forsythe, Floyd, Hoare, Knuth, ...) to map abstract
 mathematical science onto workable machines.
 
 Maybe such a collaborative science doesn't permit hero worship?  Dmr's
 own publicly visible accomplishments alone make him worthy of it, yet
 his humility was so apparent (I'm not a person who particularly had
 heros when growing up).  Perhaps his behind-the-scenes impact among
 his colleagues at Bell Labs eclipse even what everyone else can see.
 
 But it's still sad that among those acquainted with Einstein and his
 contributions, less than 1% seem to even know who Turing was.
 
 Nick
 

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Bruce Ellis]

The form was colloquially known as the I Am Great report.

brucee

On 14 October 2011 09:57, Thomas twe...@verizon.net wrote:
 I remember his giving a talk about 5 years ago at the time of his

 retirement from Bell Labs. He was delighted that he was now  a

 contract employee and no longer had to fill out a

 certain form annually and answer a question something like:

 What have you done for Bell Labs this year?

 Free at last.

 -Tom West


 On Oct 13, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Nick LaForge wrote:

 It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
 technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
 credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
 later..

 If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
 the top on my list.

 The public's traditional fascination with physics makes an interesting
 comparison, considering the relative obscurity computer science
 enjoys.

 Physics' gifts include nuclear fission, medical imaging, aerospace,
 semiconducting... the list is enumerable. Yet the greatest celebrity
 among physicists undoubtedly is Albert Einstein, who's contributions
 are most significant theoretically (aerospace aside).  So it seems
 fitting that a similarly theoretical and precise discipline like
 computer science should enjoy comparable status (in opposition to the
 actual situation where Gates and Jobs get the glory).  Ironically, the
 real reason for mathematics omission by Nobel likely was that Alfred
 Nobel thought it TOO theoretical a discipline (see
 http://mathforum.org/social/articles/ross.html).  Regardless, it took
 people like dmr (and Turing, Church, Shannon, Neumann, Dijkstra,
 Backus, Forsythe, Floyd, Hoare, Knuth, ...) to map abstract
 mathematical science onto workable machines.

 Maybe such a collaborative science doesn't permit hero worship?  Dmr's
 own publicly visible accomplishments alone make him worthy of it, yet
 his humility was so apparent (I'm not a person who particularly had
 heros when growing up).  Perhaps his behind-the-scenes impact among
 his colleagues at Bell Labs eclipse even what everyone else can see.

 But it's still sad that among those acquainted with Einstein and his
 contributions, less than 1% seem to even know who Turing was.

 Nick







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[9fans] Sad News

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan]

Hi,

Here is a sad news:

RIP Dennis Ritchie, 70, Author Of “C,” Co-Author Of UNIX Computer
Language (2’19″)
http://moviecitynews.com/2011/10/rip-dennis-ritchie-70-author-of-c-co-author-of-unix-computer-language-219/

Regards
dharani

Re: [9fans] Sad News

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
vdhar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Here is a sad news:

 RIP Dennis Ritchie, 70, Author Of “C,” Co-Author Of UNIX Computer
 Language (2’19″)
 http://moviecitynews.com/2011/10/rip-dennis-ritchie-70-author-of-c-co-author-of-unix-computer-language-219/

 Regards
 dharani