[J3] [SC22WG5.6526] Fwd: Aleks Donev, former Fortran committee member

[Brad Richardson]

I'll echo others' sentiments and express condolences to his family. The generics feature will be better for the contributions he was able to make, and it is a shame he wasn't able to contribute more.

Brad

On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 01:19 +0000, Mark LeAir via J3 wrote:

> Well said, Damian. He had a lot of ideas for Generics. And then he suddenly stopped joining our Generics Subgroup meetings. Unfortunately, we now know why. I am sad and very surprised to learn of his passing.
>
> -Mark
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> As others have said, this is very sad news. Aleks reached out to me early in his thought process about rejoining the committee and came to visit me at Berkeley Lab to ask about the status of the work on generics at the time. He was a fountain of ideas, delved deeply into the proposals, and offered detailed and insightful analysis in numerous emails and videoconferences. His contribution will be missed.
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> Damian
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> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM Ondřej Čertík via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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>> Sad indeed. I remember adding him to the J3 generic subgroup github repository.
>>
>> He had a lot of ideas for the Fortran generics and was involved last summer a lot. I think I have over 100 emails from him.
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>> Ondrej
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>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, at 4:29 PM, Gary Klimowicz via J3 wrote:
>>> This is sad news. Last summer he was engaging in the discussions about
>>> generics. It seemed like he had some interesting perspectives on things
>>> (not just generics).
>>>
>>> I added him as an alternate to my org in J3 so he could participate as
>>> much as he was able. I mourn the lost opportunities to learn from him.
>>>
>>> G.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 22, 2024, at 15:08, Steve Lionel via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> From: *Jonathan Goodman* <goodman at cims.nyu.edu>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 6:02 PM
>>>> Subject: Aleks Donev, former Fortran committee member
>>>> To: <steve at stevelionel.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Steve Lionel,
>>>>
>>>> I’m writing with the sad news that Aleks Donev passed away last fall.
>>>> Aleks was on the Fortran committee for several years, but I’m not sure
>>>> exactly when. Please pass this on to anyone in that group who knew
>>>> him. There will be a memorial for Aleks on April 12 at the Courant
>>>> Institute of NYU which anyone who knew Aleks is invited to attend.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan Goodman
>>>>
>>>> Professor of Mathematics,
>>>> Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
>>>> New York University
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