Re: Daniel Weinreb Died ((1959 ~ 2012) Lisp Programer)

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Xah Lee wrote:

> Daniel Weinreb Died ((1959 ~ 2012) Lisp Programer)
> http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Daniel_Weinreb_died.html
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> Daniel Weinreb died today. Cancer. Aged 53. (≈1959 ~ 2012-09-07).
> Obituary at 
> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=159710898

Here's a humorous response he made to Kenny Tilton:

From: Daniel Weinreb <dlw@alum.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: is oo oversold?
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:49:33 GMT

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> Richard Gabriel denounced OO as the cause of the dot bomb crash during
> an ILC keynote. Thought you should know.
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Richard Gabriel just devoted the most recent year of his life
to being the program chair of the Object-Oriented Programming,
Systems, Languages, and Applications conference. If he doesn't
believe in object-oriented stuff, I'm a monkey's uncle.