[J3] (SC22WG5.6235) Walt Brainerd

[Milan Curcic]

I'm sad to hear this. I never met Walt, but have enjoyed his F2008 book and
have been consulting it many times while writing my own book.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:26 PM Steve Lionel via J3 <
j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:

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> Subject: Walt brainerd
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:21:41 -0400
> From: Jerry Wagener <jerry at wagener.com> <jerry at wagener.com>
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> Walt Brainerd passed away on June 4th, 2020.  He had cancer of the brain
> stem.
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> Walt joined X3J3 in the mid 1970s and was a strong advocate for Fortran
> for the rest of his life.   He authored and co-authored many books on
> Fortran, taught classes, gave seminars, and ran “The Fortran Company”
> website.
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> On X3J3, Walt consistently advocated adding clear modern features and
> deprecating old, unsafe, features; often against strong opposition.  He
> encouraged the numerical analysis community to take an interest in Fortran
> development and he was the typesetter for Fortran 90.   Throughout all of
> the Fortran struggles and joys, he was just a good guy.
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> He was teaching a class at the end of February and had a fall.  After he
> flew home and went to the hospital, they discovered a mass on his brain
> stem.  He was in home hospice when he died.  His family was with him.
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> There apparently is not yet an official obituary. If you know of someone
> not on this email list that would be interested, please feel free to send
> this note to them.
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>     -Jerry
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