Thanks for this sad info. I thought that he was pissed off.
In fact henrik came at Berne to present us UC and his module (we  
could not get it).
He arrived too late and the room we reserved fro him was closed and  
slept at my place
as emergency solution.

I always liked his blue look. The other Smalltalkers (non squeakers)  
of our group
were really asking him what was his smalltalk since it was looking so  
cool
and they knew Squeak had a crappy colored interface....He had to show  
Smalltalk version
to them :)...

Stef

Of course there is a lesson to learn....
imagine mac os x in pink, green, purple and not with the aqua look  
and apple could be dead by now.
So may be we can still learn something from henrik about the  
interface of our cool
environment: let us make it beautiful and telling us how cool we are  
to use it.

On 11 oct. 05, at 12:53, goran at krampe.se wrote:

> Dear Squeakers,
>
> I don't recall why I started looking around the Internet for  
> information
> about Henrik the latest week - I have always had a strange feeling  
> about
> him so abruptly leaving the Squeak community but thought he had just
> moved on to other frontiers.
>
> I have now verified (99.9%, it is a very uncommon name in Sweden) with
> the Swedish IRS that Henrik Gedenryd in fact passed away in november
> 2002 at the age of 32. I recall he was working in England at the time
> and in an email he sent me just a month before he said he was moving
> back home to Sweden in november. I have no idea what happened.
>
> Henrik started participating in the Squeak community back in 1999, I
> think his first post is from september that year. IIRC he first  
> "fixed a
> few things" like for example getting beautiful fonts and a "nice look"
> before he duyg into other things, like Modules.
>
> He helped Dan and SqC at the time to create Squeak 3.3 - with support
> for Modules being the main feature. He put in a great effort but  
> due to
> various factors 3.3 never came to be a success - but I am sure it was
> not due to lack of quality (I have read his code and it is very good),
> rather the fact it was too "different" from 3.2 and people simply felt
> uneasy - so they didn't "move into the new house". And a Squeak  
> version
> that noone "lives in" just dies.
>
> We exchanged quite a bit of emails and the original intention with
> SqueakMap was actually to act as a complementary structure on top of
> Henrik's Modules system.
>
> Henrik and I met in person in 2001 when we visited OOPSLA together and
> shared a hotel room. I found it very interesting to hear his insights
> and I realized that, hey, this guy is probably a bit ahead of most of
> us.
>
> One thing that clued me in to this is his description of his working
> prototype of "Universal Composition" which he also wrote a draft 35- 
> page
> paper about (please *do* read it):
>
>     http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Henrik.Gedenryd/Squeak/UC/UCpaper.pdf
>
> ...with a corresponding image including code:
>
>     http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Henrik.Gedenryd/Squeak/aspectblt.zip
>
> (the above image was recently mentioned because of the fonts and the
> look, but that is definitely not the reason it is published, as the  
> name
> shows)
>
> I also recall a very nice dinner with him, me and Ian Piumarta  
> where he
> and Ian drifted off talking about weaving and software composition  
> and I
> realized I was out of my depth. :)
>
> At OOPSLA Henrik wanted to show his Unversal Composition prototype to
> Dan Ingalls and especially how he had rewritten BitBlt using it in a
> very beatiful way (see paper for details) but I am not sure they  
> really
> got time to look at it properly.
>
> Another thing I remember from that trip is how we played around  
> with the
> idea of using a transactional object memory to implement a reversible
> debugger.
>
> Henrik's Ph.D thesis on "How Designers Work" has evidently also  
> created
> a bit of attention:
>
>     http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Henrik.Gedenryd/HowDesignersWork/ 
> index.htm
> l
>
> ...which among others Chris Rust (Professor of Design and Head of  
> Art &
> Design Research Centre
> and Head of Product & Knowledge Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam
> University) refers to in very impressive words on his page:
>
>     http://www.chrisrust.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/academic/research.htm
>
> Henrik was a really nice guy, even though I know he upset at least one
> or two Squeakers over the years, but who hasn't managed to do that? :)
>
> I think it was a great loss to our community and the least thing we  
> can
> do to honour his memory is to read his very intriguing paper on
> Universal Composition - especially today when we are working with
> getting Traits into Squeak.
>
> regards, Göran
>
>