Dik Winter

[Kenny McCormack]

Sad news - a valuable contributor to this group who managed to float
above all the bullshit and provide useful information without prejudice.


FFS! The poor guy has just died and you're still worried about tiptoeing
around the topicality zealots. Let them fume if they like while those of
us not completely cut off from common humanity reflect on his
contribution.

Indeed. Well put.

But yeah, topicality Uber Alles!!

 

[Richard Tobin]

"Flash Gordon" actually added something else to his "how sad" reply - in order
to , I couldnt believe it, keep it on topic ...... I was shocked even
for this group.

Give it a rest.

-- Richard

 

[Kenny McCormack]

And your point is?

Thats twice now in a thread about someones untimely and sad demise that
the automatons in this group have actually mentioned topicality. Give
THAT a rest and then come and talk to me.

As you can see, automatons don't have any human sensitivity.

 

[Tim Rentsch]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Very sad to hear of Dik Winter's passing. Thank you Ben
for relaying this here.

 

[spinoza1111]

As you can see, automatons don't have any human sensitivity.

I expressed my sadness about his passing elsewhere upon hearing of
Dik's passing but this seems the best place for adding my note
belatedly. Dik had many interesting things to say about the history of
Algol and I will miss his contributions very much.

 

[santosh]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Being back to Usenet very recently after a long gap, I'd have missed
this thread altogether, but for a recent post.

Very sad news indeed. Dik Winter's posts, usually rich in historical
details, were always very interesting, being a relative newcomer to
the computing field myself.

 

[Nick Keighley]

I expressed my sadness about his passing elsewhere upon hearing of
Dik's passing but this seems the best place for adding my note
belatedly. Dik had many interesting things to say about the history of
Algol and I will miss his contributions very much.

particularly Algol-68. He seemed to have used it quite heavily. Even
implemented it?