Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes)

Hi,
I've just learnt that Randy Kobes (known here as randyk) passed away on September 19 this year. (This is therefore rather "old" news, and I apologise if I have missed earlier announcements.)

Many here will be aware of his contribution to perl in the form of the uwinnipeg ppm repos and kobesearch. He had also authored some cpan modules.

Over the years I had the good fortune to catch a few glimpses (albeit only via email) of the nature of the man ... and what a lovely nature it was ...

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes) by planetscape (Chancellor) on Nov 08, 2010 at 05:49 UTC
Oh no. Sad news indeed. He was always so very helpful when responding to a PPM request; so knowledgeable when replying to questions... He will be missed. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes) by Burak (Chaplain) on Nov 10, 2010 at 23:49 UTC
I mainly knew him for the ppm repositories too. He was very responsive to the emails. Rest in peace.	[reply]
Re: Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes) by didier (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2010 at 20:16 UTC
Inspired by someone here: `print map {$x=hex($_)?'':''; $x.=substr('BYdhflprswaeou ',hex($_),1)} split //,'0be05b88b2e1cde9b7be3b564d5';` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes) by metaperl (Curate) on Feb 10, 2011 at 14:51 UTC
He was very responsive to the emails. Rest in peace. ditto to this. He was super-responsive and super-helpful. The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development. -- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"	[reply]