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Subject: Re: RIP Robert Dewar 1945-2015
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Date: 2015-07-04T05:48:08-07:00
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Le mercredi 1 juillet 2015 17:19:24 UTC+2, briot.e...@gmail.com a =E9crit=
=A0:
> I am very sad to announce that Robert Dewar has passed away yesterday,
> in his 70th year.
>=20
> Robert had been involved with the Ada language for more than 35 years,
> participating in the initial design. After working on several compilers i=
n
> different companies, he became one of the founders of AdaCore.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> He was also a very significant contributor to comp.lang.ada for a very lo=
ng
> time. I am sure a lot of persons in this group still remember heated disc=
ussions
> 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.
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> He used to change sides in the middle of an argument, so we had an ongoin=
g joke
> that there were in fact two Roberts.
>=20
> Sadly, there was only one, and we will miss him.
>=20
> Emmanuel Briot
> for the AdaCore team.

Very sad,=20
best thoughts to his family,=20

Patrice