Henrik Gedenryd has passed away

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Oct 24 15:21:55 UTC 2005


If a group of people would like to gather and test the code for the  
subpixel rendering of the blue look of henrik
this would be really good.
Any taker?

Stef

>>> 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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