Very very sad news.

I don't knew him in person but I've still mails from him in my inbox to
helping me with WebClient or any stuff about what I asked.

Rest in peace Andreas and thanks for your incredible contributions to the
Squeak world.

Germán.

2013/1/15 Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se>

> Dear friends in both Squeak and Pharo communities,
>
> I am stunned but felt I just had to write something on this day and I am
> CCing Pharo because in the end we are all the same community in my book.
>
> Andreas was so young and had just started the next chapter of his life
> together with Kathleen. Now, there are other people in this community who
> knew Andreas much better than I did, but I still want to write something,
> especially perhaps to you who aren't that familiar with Andreas and all the
> work he has done for us.
>
> Andreas was *exceptionally* bright and above all perhaps the single most
> *productive* Squeaker in our community - we use lots of his code every day.
> In a Squeak 4.4 image there are 6382 methods with his developer initials
> currently on them touching in total almost a thousand classes. And this is
> more than *double* the amount of methods as the second developer on that
> list. And since this is just based on the latest version of the method, his
> legacy is even bigger in reality.
>
> "Top thirty method touchers"
> ((CompiledMethod allInstances collect: [:m |
>         m timeStamp readStream upTo: Character space])
>                 asBag sortedCounts first: 30)
>
> "Classes touched by Andreas"
> (CompiledMethod allInstances select: [:m |
>         (m timeStamp readStream upTo: Character space) = 'ar']
>                 thenCollect: [:m | m methodClass])
>                         asSet
>
> And even in Pharo 1.4 his mark is still there with almost 3000 methods
> touching almost 400 classes, this places him at *fourth* place.
>
> And of course he wrote the Windows VM and was an instrumental developer of
> Croquet/Teleplace and much, much, *much* more.
>
> Now, we have a few VM developers who are very good at those parts. And we
> have developers who are very good at selected areas of the image level. But
> people like Andreas who work on *all* levels of Squeak, from the VM and all
> the way up to 3D and stuff like Croquet... well, we don't have many and at
> the moment I am not sure I can think of anyone with the same span as
> Andreas had.
>
> I only met him a few times, at OOPSLA I think and once he visited
> Stockholm and we had some time hacking and talking about Squeak and how to
> grow the community and so on. He cared quite a lot about the community,
> perhaps more than most people thought.
>
> Two years ago Andreas contacted me for some contract work for Teleplace
> and he was as always very sharp, friendly and helpful in getting me up to
> speed and being involved although I was sitting here in Stockholm. We had
> some late night Skype sessions digging deep together in odd network
> protocols and it was in the middle of one such session, about 2 years ago
> that I asked him:
>
>         Me: And hey, Eliot gossiped that you ... met someone? :)
>         Andreas: Yes, indeed. Madly in love as they say :-)
>
> Life is just not fair. This is a very sad day.
>
> Göran
>
>
>
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