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Shlomi Fish
May 26, 2021, 3:15:03 AM5/26/21
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On Tue, 25 May 2021 15:06:01 +0100
Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> wrote:
> I’m sad to have to report that Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN) has
> recently passed away, due to complications of COVID.
>
> Spider released several distributions to CPAN, one of which (Net::Dnet) is
> still there. It looks like he tidied up older things.
>
> Spider originally worked at Digital, where his daughter told me he worked on
> Unix (and presumably then Ultrix), and then stayed through acquisitions by
> Compaq and then HP, where he had worked on security.
>
> Looking at early Perl 5 releases, I found that he not only contributed bug
> fixes to Perl itself, but was also contributing tweaks to hints files as well.
>
> Neil
sorry to hear that. R.I.P.
"Live long and prosper" (also known as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom alechem).
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Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> wrote:
> I’m sad to have to report that Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN) has
> recently passed away, due to complications of COVID.
>
> Spider released several distributions to CPAN, one of which (Net::Dnet) is
> still there. It looks like he tidied up older things.
>
> Spider originally worked at Digital, where his daughter told me he worked on
> Unix (and presumably then Ultrix), and then stayed through acquisitions by
> Compaq and then HP, where he had worked on security.
>
> Looking at early Perl 5 releases, I found that he not only contributed bug
> fixes to Perl itself, but was also contributing tweaks to hints files as well.
>
> Neil
sorry to hear that. R.I.P.
"Live long and prosper" (also known as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom alechem).
--
Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/
https://is.gd/KNvczZ - The FSF Announces New Versions of the GPL
Happy Birthday! You'll be older than I in no time at this rate!
— ED Curtis Curtis on Facebook
Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
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