Sam --

I (and we) are very sorry to hear this. David was a very good guy and 
wonderful to work and talk with over the years.

Alan

At 12:27 PM -0400 4/20/04, Sam Adams wrote:
>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
><<Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 1:16-17, I Corinthians 1:10>>


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