Josh Gargus schwa@fastmail.us wrote:
I'm also saddened to hear of Henrik's passing. I've often wondered what became of him, and have googled him several times over the last years, to no avail. I imagined that exasperation at the failure of
I have too. I recall Brian Rice (Slate) asked me about him (since we are both from Sweden), I think he wanted to know more about the UC stuff etc.
But the other day I really took the time to go thorugh ALL google hits and then I found one which gave it away from inside ACM (could not get to the document itself) - it said "late Henrik Gedenryd".
3.3 caused him to wander away from Squeak, and always hoped that he would come back.
I don't really think he did wander "away" from Squeak, as I said, I have email correspondence upto right before november 2002. I think he just got temporarily busy with other things, like work etc.
It is hard to reconcile the reality with the imaginary life that I had given him during the last years.
Yes, quite an odd feeling. And it makes you wonder how many other Squeakers that just seem to "leave" may in fact have passed on. I have too, on many occasions wondered what he was up to. It also makes you wonder how oneself might be remembered if something happened.
His work is an inspiration to me, and I regret never having met him in person.
Josh
He sure was interesting to talk and listen to, which I did a lot at OOPSLA that year.
I have on many times thought I would go back and dig in his Modules code to look into it more closely. I recall several parts of it that was really neat, like the separation of load and activation of Modules and the technique used for activation (a big become: operation).
One cool thing with Henrik was that he dared challenge the "Gods" of Smalltalk and actually propose and push a radical change. Regardless of the merits of the change itself - I found that refreshing. And we should try to do it more.
regards, Göran