Alan,

Thanks for the telling story.

Kristen's obit appeared on Farber's list August 7. But Dahl actually 
died June 29.

Djikstra died August 6. Nygaard August 9.

Larry

At 4:08 PM -0800 8/12/02, Alan Kay wrote:
>Thanks Larry --
>
>Friends --
>
>      It seems impossible that both of these great men could have 
>died within a week of each other. I did not know Dahl well. He was a 
>very quiet man and looked at things very differently than I. But I 
>was a close friend, even a kind of soul mate, to Kristen. I'll never 
>forget when I met both of them. It was during the first HOPL. On the 
>way to the conference Dahl and Tony Hoare stopped by PARC to visit, 
>and I gave them a demo of Smalltalk. Neither understood a word I 
>said. Needless to say, I was crushed. It was seeing in 1966 the 
>first Simula after seeing Sketchpad that catalysed my earliest 
>biologically oriented ideas about objects.
>      After the HOPL conference, Kristen stopped by and I gave him 
>the same demo. What a difference! He not only understood everything 
>I said, but often told me what I was going to show him next. He had 
>been thinking about further steps and he was completely thrilled to 
>see many of these ideas already in Smalltalk. We were great friends 
>from that day onwards. I have given many thousands of demos in the 
>last 40 years, but that was the one that meant the most to me.
>      Kristen, we miss you terribly.
>
>Sincerely to all,
>
>Alan
>
>---------
>
>At 7:02 AM -0700 8/12/02, Sean McGrath wrote:
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:35:18 -0400
>>From: Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
>>Reply-To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
>>To: ip <ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com>
>>Subject: IP: Kristen Nygaard 1926-2002
>>
>>
>>------ Forwarded Message
>>From: Larry Tesler <tesler at pobox.com>
>>Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:39:07 -0700
>>To: David Farber <farber at central.cis.upenn.edu>
>>Subject: Kristen Nygaard 1926-2002
>>
>>Dave,
>>
>>On August 7, you posted an obituary for Ole-Johan Dahl, written by
>>his long-time colleague, Kristen Nygaard. Two days later, and three
>>weeks short of his 76th birthday, Kristen left us as well.