(sad news:) Eelco Visser

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Many of us already heard this through the Twitter-vine, but in case you’ve missed this:

Eelco Visser, professor CS in Delft, and founder+chair of its PL research group, as well as a member of this forum and irregular attendee of the Virtual Meetup, passed away completely unexpectedly last Tuesday.

He has made a huge contribution to the field of programming language research, design, and implementation, and by extension to the field of DSLs and model-driven software development. Other people are much more entitled to extoll all of Eelco’s achievements and virtues, both as a researcher, as a driving force, and as a human/person/friend, so I’ll leave it at that.

RIP Eelco, you’ll be missed

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Oh! :frowning:
So sorry, to hear that.
Eelco was always a very active member of out community.
RIP and all my condolences to his family and friends.

Thanks for letting us know, Meinte.

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Very sad news, Meinte.

I’ve found these URLs:

We will miss you, Eelco.

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Very sad indeed, my condolences to the family.

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I was very sad to hear this. I remember how he gave two consecutive presentations in this community, each one stressing the 2 hours. He was very generous with his time and I think most of us have benefitted, directly or indirectly, from his work and his role in the SLE community

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That’s sad to hear…

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So sorry!
May his soul rest in perfect peace.

God blesses!!!

My regards to his family!

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This is a big loss. He had a clear view DSL’s.