Re: Dirk Laurie Passing

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

Sad news. I really appreciate Dirk and his passion. He will be sincerely missed. 

- Andrew Starks

> On Jan 17, 2020, at 19:33, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:04:06 +0100
> Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it> wrote:
> 
>> I just stumbled on this article:
>> 
>> https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6628
>> 
>> I'm not completely sure, but I think that it refers to "ours" Dirk
>> Laurie.
>> 
>> I didn't know him well, but from his posts on lua-l I think he was a
>> NZ retired maths professor, so that article is probably about him.
>> 
>> I had some arguments with him on lua-l a couple of times, but he was
>> an influential member nonetheless. Moreover many of his posts were
>> food for thought.
> 
> Dirk helped me out, via this list, when I was starting with Lua. He had
> a very common sense attitude toward programming, was always ready to
> listen, and help out those of us striving to be better at Lua or
> programming in general. This is very bad news.
> 
>> 
>> Condolences to his family and to whoever knew him and considered him
>> a friend.
> 
> Yes!
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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