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    From dirk@[email protected]. (Dirk Craeynest) to comp.lang.ada on Sat May 31 08:34:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    Simon J. Wright passed away recently.

    Simon is well known through his work supporting GNAT on the Mac,
    his participation in many Ada forums, and by being a very active
    and helpful member of the Ada community until the end.

    https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/simon-j-wright-rip

    He will be missed...

    Dirk
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  • From moi@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Sun Jun 1 00:08:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    On 31/05/2025 09:34, Dirk Craeynest wrote:
    Simon J. Wright passed away recently.

    Simon is well known through his work supporting GNAT on the Mac,
    his participation in many Ada forums, and by being a very active
    and helpful member of the Ada community until the end.

    https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/simon-j-wright-rip

    He will be missed...

    Dirk
    This is very sad news indeed.
    --
    Bill F.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?=@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Sun Jun 1 12:50:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    Many Adaists began during this week to express sadness over Simon J.
    Wright's death but following hyperlinks via a first hyperlink on that Discourse Ada-forum webpage from May 29th, 2025 gives the notion that he
    died before April 3rd, 2025.

    I noticed no alert on Team Ada and USENET and that Discourse Ada forum
    that Ms. Charlene Roberts-Hayden died on May 11th, 2025. Cf. Bryan
    Marquard, "Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering Black woman in computer programming, dies at 86", "The Boston Globe", HTTPS://WWW.BostonGlobe.com/2025/05/18/metro/charlene-roberts-hayden-computer-programming-pioneer-passes-away
    which David Emery hyperlinks to from the LinkedIn group that is called Ada Programming Language since circa May 31st, 2025.

    She wrote to Hal Hart via Team Ada in 1997:
    "Hal,

    I strongly agree with your comments. I know here in the Boston area,
    on various committees I participate on, I have heard nothing but
    distress and regret from the proponents of Ada who know the worth of
    the only highly reliable HOL in existence today, and sarcasm from Ada's opponents, "even the DoD has given up on Ada". I think that without the
    Ada mandate, given the popular, existing languages unreliability and the software explosion far surpassing that of the 1980's, the DoD is headed
    for an even more catastrophic software revolution than that which
    preceded and was the impetus for the Ada language."
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5lIFJpdmnDqHJl?=@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Sun Jun 1 14:55:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    Niocláisín, thanks for your comments

    Some related links (no paywall)

    https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/charlene-roberts-hayden-obit/

    https://hart-site.net/Purdue-CS-Panel-Reunion/WhateverHappenedTo/HalHart.html


    She wrote to Hal Hart via Team Ada in 1997:
    "Hal,

    I strongly agree with your comments. I know here in the Boston area,
    on various committees I participate on, I have heard nothing but
    distress and regret from the proponents of Ada who know the worth of
    the only highly reliable HOL in existence today, and sarcasm from Ada's opponents, "even the DoD has given up on Ada". I think that without the
    Ada mandate, given the popular, existing languages unreliability and the software explosion far surpassing that of the 1980's, the DoD is headed
    for an even more catastrophic software revolution than that which
    preceded and was the impetus for the Ada language."

    This was very true and has been verified.
    --
    Stéphane Rivière
    Ile d'Oléron - France

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  • From John McCabe@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Tue Sep 9 09:39:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:34:23 -0000 (UTC), Dirk Craeynest wrote:

    Simon J. Wright passed away recently.

    As I'm occasionally catching up with things in the Ada world, I've only
    just seen this, but that's very sad. Simon has been one of those
    stalwarts that, since my first forays into Ada in the 90s, was always
    around, as far as I remember. He was very helpful and knowledgable, and
    will be missed.

    RIP
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  • From moi@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Tue Sep 9 23:56:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    On 09/09/2025 10:39, John McCabe wrote:
    On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:34:23 -0000 (UTC), Dirk Craeynest wrote:

    Simon J. Wright passed away recently.

    As I'm occasionally catching up with things in the Ada world, I've only
    just seen this, but that's very sad. Simon has been one of those
    stalwarts that, since my first forays into Ada in the 90s, was always
    around, as far as I remember. He was very helpful and knowledgable, and
    will be missed.

    RIP

    Hear, hear!
    --
    Bill F.

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