From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.120.232 with SMTP id p68mr17109109yhh.43.1374532175189; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:29:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.77.78 with SMTP id q14mr1508280igw.2.1374532063702; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cb17no34927qab.0!news-out.google.com!dk8ni1249qab.0!nntp.google.com!cb17no34923qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:27:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <27282135-7d85-42dd-92c3-3963cfa55d64@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: David C. Hoos, RIP From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:29:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 2384 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182648 Date: 2013-07-22T15:27:43-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, July 22, 2013 10:49:33 AM UTC-6, Marc C wrote: > Old-timers to this forum will remember David C. Hoos, Sr. as an active an= d knowledgeable participant, a real force within the Ada user community. >=20 >=20 >=20 > David was killed in an auto accident Saturday night, his vehicle collidin= g with a car driven by an unlicensed minor. http://blog.al.com/breaking/201= 3/07/77-year-old_man_killed_in_car.html >=20 >=20 >=20 > I had the pleasure of having lunch with him about a dozen years ago, and = exchanged an occasional email. On one project I worked on in the subsequent= years I found his name all through the code, he had been one of the princi= pal designers of the very large wargaming system that I was porting to a ne= w platform. >=20 >=20 >=20 > While he'd been retired for several years now and pretty much dropped out= of active involvement with the Ada community, his participation in it for = many years strengthened it and helped teach developers how to get more out = of the language. >=20 >=20 >=20 > RIP, David >=20 >=20 >=20 > Marc A. Criley >=20 > New Market, AL That wargaming software wouldn't happen to be Janus, would it?