Tony Davie

[Claus Reinke]

    There once lived a Tony named Davie,
    whose favourite language was lazy.
    He worked with persistence,
    and humorous insistence
    on limericks driving you crazy.

Sorry I never came up with one when you asked us to.

Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Hammond" <kh@dcs.st-and.ac.uk>
To: <haskell@haskell.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:57 PM
Subject: Tony Davie


> Dear Haskell list member,
> 
> It is with regret that I must inform you of the death of Tony Davie,
> who passed away on Wednesday, January 9th following a long-standing
> battle with leukemia.  Many of you who came into contact with him will
> have been impressed by his in-depth understanding of his subject,
> by his interesting research talks, and by his sense of humour.
> 
> Tony wrote the first book on Haskell, "An Introduction to Functional
> Programming Systems using Haskell", worked on functional persistent systems,
> and designed the CASE abstract machine, as well as being a major contributor
> to early SASL implementations here at St Andrews.  In many ways, he was
> a true functional programming pioneer.
> 
> I am sure you will back my action in expressing the condolences of the
> entire international community to Tony's family.
> 
> Kevin
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