From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom9=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Sat Jun 13 21:26:00 2020 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom9 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom9@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id B0B84358BEA; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mail-qt1-f174.google.com (mail-qt1-f174.google.com [209.85.160.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B85C358AD4 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-qt1-f174.google.com with SMTP id e16so9739480qtg.0 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:26:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stevelionel.com; s=google; h=subject:references:to:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language; bh=m0za69WYKNyHEG+xXBMSp/+T+4zesHgmD/WyounJRnI=; b=nHUrhKV33TxdbWfOYTNNrsj4+mN9n3CmPJbxyy9dl/wvX28h5WdZ18OUC29shy2Ku5 gbAzJhxsls0BR46bZITYvRZxe01bLNFebpnPzjHWcabajE9AM8+FEJ66MW6p3vPGVA9o 0El6S8eM695VWME3773OXor/LcGqISHw2w6cg= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:references:to:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language; bh=m0za69WYKNyHEG+xXBMSp/+T+4zesHgmD/WyounJRnI=; b=W+LyojLw6nNvqC/mD+p3qI0CxhLLjNpYy661skVPhFgiI7cLuga4Dj1nacpu7EFY9h 5iTUHhR0btYXmM+uhDa1n1D4t/NgF17DlBe8cychOkTihNH23DZ38pOykWZaWAR97VsT OiV/QtEjWwSy5A0+a+7Z+v1gkMPBfQs2ZkPUqdifjvHm71j1qVkaTn1cDZeasIwNcvyb xs+BaKuUnzm+VPxux0hRmrVdIPRKkGdyXiIG5RCCulKWLGubMwkZB9VOCD+WHjIYKm6D /qkhiB1d1Gbee3p57GtHkTXK46916Bw+VTGsxRJvwW3rFShwasv1OOycZE6NnPc9nCtm I7Ug== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530ZMMZeeZM9XVQM5dPjJ6kOtGZtPtrR4JS12vBxBtj9GFoSEBiD Tz5fXn2Ppiktg10kG1AJJHfLCt9eZXpfnQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzNJoEaDwJ/6G/nimvyRH0Ep7OO/Ekw4tnoxy9Wtz+TNewKmD9k9lYk6yq0JfQcn6eUNZTHWw== X-Received: by 2002:aed:3f6d:: with SMTP id q42mr9233497qtf.41.1592076358048; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([71.241.143.53]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z60sm8176855qtc.30.2020.06.13.12.25.57 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Walt Brainerd References: To: WG5 List From: Steve Lionel X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-Forwarded-Message-Id: Message-ID: <723566ac-b21c-05cc-6a04-b7b35fc86107@stevelionel.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:25:56 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------4D5FEB07B47EABDC77EE55EE" Content-Language: en-US Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4D5FEB07B47EABDC77EE55EE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Walt brainerd Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:21:41 -0400 From: Jerry Wagener To: Walt Brainerd passed away on June 4^th , 2020.  He had cancer of the brain stem. 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. 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. 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. 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.   -Jerry --------------4D5FEB07B47EABDC77EE55EE Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




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Subject: Walt brainerd
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:21:41 -0400
From: Jerry Wagener <jerry@wagener.com>
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Walt Brainerd passed away on June 4th, 2020.  He had cancer of the brain stem.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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.

    -Jerry
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