[HN Gopher] William Cook has died
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       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).
        
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       | 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...
        
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