Thanks Larry --

So Dahl and Nygaard didn't die within a few days of each other. That 
would have been strange and unusual.

In any case, as you well know, Kristen was very special, both as a 
technologist and as a person and friend.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 5:59 PM -0700 8/12/02, Larry Tesler wrote:
>Alan,
>
>Thanks for the telling story.
>
>Kristen's obit appeared on Farber's list August 7. But Dahl actually 
>died June 29.
>
>Djikstra died August 6. Nygaard August 9.
>
>Larry
>
>At 4:08 PM -0800 8/12/02, Alan Kay wrote:
>>Thanks Larry --
>>
>>Friends --
>>
>>      It seems impossible that both of these great men could have 
>>died within a week of each other. I did not know Dahl well. He was 
>>a very quiet man and looked at things very differently than I. But 
>>I was a close friend, even a kind of soul mate, to Kristen. I'll 
>>never forget when I met both of them. It was during the first HOPL. 
>>On the way to the conference Dahl and Tony Hoare stopped by PARC to 
>>visit, and I gave them a demo of Smalltalk. Neither understood a 
>>word I said. Needless to say, I was crushed. It was seeing in 1966 
>>the first Simula after seeing Sketchpad that catalysed my earliest 
>>biologically oriented ideas about objects.
>>      After the HOPL conference, Kristen stopped by and I gave him 
>>the same demo. What a difference! He not only understood everything 
>>I said, but often told me what I was going to show him next. He had 
>>been thinking about further steps and he was completely thrilled to 
>>see many of these ideas already in Smalltalk. We were great friends 
>>from that day onwards. I have given many thousands of demos in the 
>>last 40 years, but that was the one that meant the most to me.
>>      Kristen, we miss you terribly.
>>
>>Sincerely to all,
>>
>>Alan
>>
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>>
>>At 7:02 AM -0700 8/12/02, Sean McGrath wrote:
>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:35:18 -0400
>>>From: Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
>>>Reply-To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
>>>To: ip <ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com>
>>>Subject: IP: Kristen Nygaard 1926-2002
>>>
>>>
>>>------ Forwarded Message
>>>From: Larry Tesler <tesler at pobox.com>
>>>Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:39:07 -0700
>>>To: David Farber <farber at central.cis.upenn.edu>
>>>Subject: Kristen Nygaard 1926-2002
>>>
>>>Dave,
>>>
>>>On August 7, you posted an obituary for Ole-Johan Dahl, written by
>>>his long-time colleague, Kristen Nygaard. Two days later, and three
>>>weeks short of his 76th birthday, Kristen left us as well.


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