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 10.66.63.102 with SMTP id f6mr35218678pas.19.1435763963229; Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:19:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.39.165 with SMTP id v34mr337318qgv.25.1435763962969; Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ff1no324816igc.0!news-out.google.com!w15ni14631qge.0!nntp.google.com!t90no234525qga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 08:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.98.77.127; posting-account=6yLzewoAAABoisbSsCJH1SPMc9UrfXBH NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.98.77.127 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3cc0594c-b800-4de5-938a-064bef0adf48@googlegroups.com> Subject: RIP Robert Dewar 1945-2015 From: briot.emmanuel@gmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:19:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:193862 Date: 2015-07-01T08:19:22-07:00 List-Id: I am very sad to announce that Robert Dewar has passed away yesterday, in his 70th year. Robert had been involved with the Ada language for more than 35 years, participating in the initial design. After working on several compilers in different companies, he became one of the founders of AdaCore. He has done too many technical achievements to be able to list them. He was rightly very proud of the GNAT compiler, and especially, I think, of the quality of its error messages. He spent a large amount of time improving every tiny piece of code and forcing all AdaCore developers to adopt a consistent coding style. He was also a very significant contributor to comp.lang.ada for a very long time. I am sure a lot of persons in this group still remember heated discussions here. I think it is fair to say that Robert was strong minded, but he was also a fair person quick to acknowledge both sides of any argument. He used to change sides in the middle of an argument, so we had an ongoing joke that there were in fact two Roberts. Sadly, there was only one, and we will miss him. Emmanuel Briot for the AdaCore team.