[HN Gopher] Jim Warren has died
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       Jim Warren has died
        
       Author : drallison
       Score  : 155 points
       Date   : 2021-11-25 07:56 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | I knew him back when the EFF was being founded. A great loss.
        
       | StuntPope wrote:
       | I loved Dr Dobbs Journal. Used to buy it every month when I was
       | in college and barely understood any of it.
        
         | kabdib wrote:
         | I eagerly awaited every issue. It taught me a lot, in an era
         | where finding information about computers was pretty difficult.
         | I was in junior high school, and none of the books in the
         | school or public libraries covered _any_ of this fancy new
         | "microcomputer" stuff.
         | 
         | Inspired by DDJ, I remember writing my own versions of PILOT
         | and a "Tiny BASIC" with floating point, in Z-80 assembly, a
         | couple years before I got my first computer. Probably still
         | have those notebooks somewhere, I'm sure that code is
         | _terrible_ :-)
         | 
         | I'm grateful to DDJ for its liveliness, breadth of subject
         | matter (okay, "randomness"), and simple enthusiasm for teaching
         | people about personal computing.
        
         | Findecanor wrote:
         | I used to read it in the city library, and once I even borrowed
         | a whole year's journals to binge-read. I learned a lot of
         | coding techniques from articles in it back in the day.
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | More on Jim here:
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_(computer_specialis...
        
       | westcoast330 wrote:
       | When I was growing up, I saw Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely
       | on PBS. About midway through as I recall there's Jim Warren
       | sitting in a hot tub with a killer view talking about the West
       | Coast Computer Faire and early computing. I had only recently
       | started coding in QBASIC then Visual Basic. Seeing that
       | documentary helped cement my interest in programming and
       | computers in general.
       | 
       | Thanks Jim!
       | 
       | Edit: Found the first clip. Wish I had a chance to meet him,
       | sounded like a character: https://youtu.be/toSRmKKiosQ?t=1790
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | _> One fewer curmudgeon. We 're going to have to work extra hard
       | to keep the curmudgeon level up._
       | 
       | I'm doing my part for The Cause...
        
         | kabdib wrote:
         | "Look," I once said to a manager of mine, "I've been using this
         | programming language longer than you've been _alive_... "
         | 
         | Card-carrying member here. :-)
        
       | T3RMINATED wrote:
       | Another victim of the COVID Vaccine. Sorry man.
        
       | ScottAdams wrote:
       | He will be missed. I still remember fondly he would fly around
       | the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire on rollerskates, going
       | everywhere to make sure it was running smoothly.
        
         | rgacote wrote:
         | And given how tall Jim was, you could see his face floating
         | over the Faire floor from across the entire hall.
        
       | Victorakpan wrote:
       | What a tragic, may his soul rest in peace
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | He was responsible for getting the entire California legal code
       | online, which I believe was a first for the USA.
        
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