the passing of IBM's David N. Smith

Sam Adams ssadams at us.ibm.com
Tue Apr 20 16:27:19 UTC 2004





David N. Smith, one of IBM's first Smalltalkers, passed away Tuesday, April
13, 2004.
Dave was an ardent supporter of Smalltalk from the its origins at PARC
through IBM's own versions.  He was the author of several books, including
Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming, and IBM Smalltalk: The Language.


For the last several years he was a dedicated Squeaker and a frequent
contributor of high quality code, including significant improvements to the
Number classes, early morphic drag and drop, and the ever popular wandering
blob demo.


Dave was a deep thinker, a dedicated researcher, a creative and supportive
co-worker, and a good friend.


We'll miss him.


Expressions of sympathy may be sent to ssadams at us.ibm.com and I will
forward them to Dave's family.


Those who frequent other Smalltalk-related lists may repost this message
there.


Please note that this is David N. Smith of IBM, *not* David Smith of Virtus
and Croquet fame.



Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
tie line 444-0736, outside 919-254-0736, email: ssadams at us.ibm.com
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