>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.
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>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.
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>Dave was a deep thinker, a dedicated researcher, a creative and supportive co-worker, and a good friend.
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>We'll miss him.

We sure will.

I am saddened to hear this, as Dave was a real enthusiast and a supporter of interesting work before it became mainstream.  It was a privilege to have him on the bus.

	- Dan