Sad news: Fredrik Lundh ("Effbot") has passed away
jkn
jkn_gg at nicorp.f9.co.uk
Sat Dec 11 04:02:45 EST 2021
On Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 1:37:07 AM UTC, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Message from Guido van Rossum
> (https://mail.python.org/archives/list/pytho...@python.org/thread/36Q5QBILL3QIFIA3KHNGFBNJQKXKN7SD/):
>
> > A former core dev who works at Google just passed the news that
> > Fredrik Lundh (also known as Effbot) has died.
> >
> > Fredrik was an early Python contributor (e.g. Elementtree and the 're'
> > module) and his enthusiasm for the language and community were
> > inspiring for all who encountered him or his work. He spent countless
> > hours on comp.lang.python answering questions from newbies and
> > advanced users alike.
> >
> > He also co-founded an early Python startup, Secret Labs AB, which
> > among other software released an IDE named PythonWorks. Fredrik also
> > created the Python Imaging Library (PIL) which is still THE way to
> > interact with images in Python, now most often through its Pillow
> > fork. His effbot.org site was a valuable resource for generations of
> > Python users, especially its Tkinter documentation.
> >
> > Fredrik's private Facebook page contains the following message from
> > November 25 by Ylva Larensson (translated from Swedish):
> >
> > """
> >
> > It is with such sorrow and pain that I write this. Fredrik has left us
> > suddenly.
> >
> > """
> >
> > A core dev wrote: "I felt privileged to be able to study Fredrik's
> > code and to read his writing. He was a huge asset to our community in
> > the early days. I enjoyed his sense of humor as well. I'm sad that he
> > passed away."
> >
> > We will miss him.
> >
>
> --
> "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't
> stop to think if they should"
> -- Dr. Ian Malcolm
Thanks for passing on this sad news. Effbot was one of the luminaries when
I started writing Python (v1.4/v1.52 times). I still have his 'standard library'
book, as well as being a user of PIL/Pillow.
Jon N
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