[HN Gopher] William Cook has died ___________________________________________________________________ William Cook has died Author : ksec Score : 71 points Date : 2021-12-03 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (mjtsai.com) (TXT) w3m dump (mjtsai.com) | sgt wrote: | Accomplished musician as well: | http://wcook.org/music/New%20Orleans.mp3 | CodeBeater wrote: | Someone really ought to archive this website. | toomuchtodo wrote: | Done. Should be available in the Internet Archive | immediately. I recommend using those URLs for Wikipedia | citations to get ahead of link rot. | junon wrote: | Died at 57 :/ Sad to hear, that's pretty young still. | ethanzh wrote: | Dr. Cook was probably my favorite professor I've had here at UT. | I had the opportunity to learn functional programming from him in | both Haskell and Agda through the two PL classes he taught here. | May he Rest In Peace. | aerovistae wrote: | He's not mentioned anywhere on the AppleScript wikipedia page | except in the citations section. Seems like a bit of an | oversight. | sgt wrote: | That definitely should be added, with a link to this paper: | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/AppleScript/AppleScr... | lmeyerov wrote: | <3 | | He was incredibly encouraging for me and other PL designers | through WGLD, Onwards, and other PL R&D groups. For me, that was | needed motivation to tackle challenges outside the conservative | "types & performance" of federally/industrially funded academia. | Likewise, I can easily list some great researchers working off | the beat track who I bet would say the same. It is a surprisingly | small community, so quite an early loss :( | eatonphil wrote: | Some more info here as well: https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/rip- | william-cook/3407. | ksec wrote: | Which is actually the first link in the blog post. I wanted to | include that tweet as well in the second link so submitted | this. Unfortunately I think it ends up people not click both of | those links. | | But I cant change the link any more ( May be @Dang could help? | ). So I hope this comments stays on top. | eatonphil wrote: | Oh I didn't realize it. I saw some of the headers were links | but I was confused and assumed it was a link to the header on | the same page. | sgt wrote: | AppleScript was/is a pretty nifty thing. Fun to experiment with | and do things that would normally be very hard (scripting UI). | [deleted] | mitchbob wrote: | Sad to hear. I wrote the original AppleScript documentation and | worked closely with William and Warren and the rest of the | AppleScript team. It was one of the few teams I worked with in | Silicon Valley that had a real sense of community, with regular | outings to our favorite taqueria in Mt. View and that great | Indian restaurant in the Sunnyvale strip mall, and also impromptu | music sessions with William on guitar. He was a great guy who | died much too young. | lliamander wrote: | Sad to see. His definition of OOP[1] helped to shape my style of | programming. | | [1]https://wcook.blogspot.com/2012/07/proposal-for- | simplified-m... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-03 23:00 UTC)