Re: [math-fun] Dan Weinreb
Quad> On the internet, he was always willing to share his opinions, his stories, etc. in great detail, and remained respectful about it. A very unfortunate loss, especially to the Lisp community. -Robert On 9/7/2012 8:32 PM, rcs@xmission.com <http://gosper.org/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=rcs%40xmission.com> wrote:> <from the grapevine -- long twisty path omitted -- rcs>>> I am very sorry to report that Dan Weinreb passed away this morning.> Dan was a founder of our local technology community, working on the> Lisp Machine at MIT in the 1970s, as a founder of Symbolics in the> early 1980s, later as founder of the object database company Object> Design, and as our colleague at ITA Software and Google since 2006.> Dan was a wonderful man, and will be missed.> Didn't he originate the recursive Editor acronyms EINE and ZWEI? EINE Is Not Emacs and ZWEI Was EINE Initially ? --rwg
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