There once lived a Tony named Davie, whose favourite language was lazy. He worked with persistence, and humorous insistence on limericks driving you crazy. Sorry I never came up with one when you asked us to. Claus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Hammond" <kh@dcs.st-and.ac.uk> To: <haskell@haskell.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Tony Davie
Dear Haskell list member,
It is with regret that I must inform you of the death of Tony Davie, who passed away on Wednesday, January 9th following a long-standing battle with leukemia. Many of you who came into contact with him will have been impressed by his in-depth understanding of his subject, by his interesting research talks, and by his sense of humour.
Tony wrote the first book on Haskell, "An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems using Haskell", worked on functional persistent systems, and designed the CASE abstract machine, as well as being a major contributor to early SASL implementations here at St Andrews. In many ways, he was a true functional programming pioneer.
I am sure you will back my action in expressing the condolences of the entire international community to Tony's family.
Kevin _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell