On 08/22/2018 02:46 PM, Jim Sheldon wrote: > I worked with Kevin for a short time about 10 years ago, this is very > sad, he was a great person.
Seconded. The obituary for the more general audience doesn't necessarily do justice, for people who actually knew him in more specific capacities; I guess that's not really what it's for, though. I remember him as someone who was at home in Perl, who edited in emacs, who preferred feature-tests to platform-checks, whose response to being laid off was something to the effect of "on the up side, I'm done fighting with that svn merge a lot sooner than I thought I would be"; and who preferred butterfly yo-yos because they made string-tricks easier. I remember the first conversation I ever had with him, when I first met him, I think I said "I... kind of like Python, actually. Does that mean that we can't be friends?". He took a moment to think that over. (though in reality I was actually writing mostly Perl code at that point, myself...) And I remember when he later introduced me to Valgrind. But "how we _go about_ remembering people" is something that I personally feel like I don't really have a good handle on; I think, maybe..., if you'd like to spend some time remembering Kevin the way some of us knew him, it might make sense to visit these: * Kevin's github profile: https://github.com/kdc1024/ * Kevin's blog: http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ Alas Kevin's tribute page for Elephant Memory Systems disappeared some time ago, and the wayback machine doesn't even have a copy. A bit ironic, that.... I kept meaning to ask him if he still had a copy of it somewhere..., but forgetting to actually do so. I was trying to hire him last year. That I'll never get another chance at that is... I don't know--"supremely frustrating". > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:53 AM Ted Roche <tedro...@tedroche.com> wrote: >> >> I'm sorry to report of the passing of Kevin D. Clark at the too-young age of >> 48: >> >> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fosters/obituary.aspx?pid=190018995 >> >> Kevin was an active member of GNHLUG, several of the satellite LUGs and a >> regular contributor to the mailing list. >> >> He will be missed. >> >> -- >> Ted Roche >> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC >> http://www.tedroche.com >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
