Henrik Gedenryd has passed away

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Mon Oct 24 07:39:42 UTC 2005


Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> 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.
> 
> I've been behind on the mail list for a while, and now am stunned by this news.
> 
> Henrik was so bright and fearless.  He's the only person who really worked through my first attempt at modules, and understood and worked with  the reorganizeEverything logic.  He was a tireless and enthusiastic collaborator.  I now feel double pain that we were not able to get this into the mainstream in a way that worked for everyone.  His font work was also extraordinary, and I'm glad to find that paper on "Universal Composition".  But too late, alas.  Aaaugh.
> 
> Thank you GÐran, for letting us all know.  It would indeed be nice to get something substantive or at least decorative into Squeak as a memorial.

I definitely agree. I will try to see to that in one way or the other.

> 	- Dan

regards, Göran



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