On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Dave T. wrote:
A suggestion. Ruby Central was, I believe, thinking of a grant
program at some point in the future. Could his name somehow be
associated with these grants? ts gave a lot to the community. It
would seem fit to use his name when the community itself gives
something to others.
that’s a fantastic idea dave. matz, i don’t think it’s ever been done
before, but have you ever considered honoring ruby’s people into the
language itself? Ruby.decoux. Ruby.matz. Ruby.nobu. or maybe just
‘require “people”’ - People.decoux, etc. what would these methods
do? maybe return something about them, or maybe something different.
i’ve never been able to explain why i felt ruby was a different
community but the fact that i would even suggest this in public must
explain it somehow.
one thing i discovered about guy long ago when he was helping me
offline: he hated revision control. the reason? he had ‘mémoire
d’éléphant’ - a photographic memory. apparently he liked to forget
things when possible.
maybe http://decoux.ruby-lang.org/ would be a good pastie name for
ruby - given this propensity to never forget?
i’ll miss guy.
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
2008/9/25 _why :
Here is drawing in honor of our departed ts.
http://hackety.org/images/a-note-to-pigeon.png
Very touching drawing, _why. Thanks.
– Jean-François.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Jean-François
Trân[email protected] wrote:
Hello,
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008.
This is very sad news. There is another thread asking for people to
nominate famous Ruby personalities. After Matz, Guy was the first
person I thought of. Easily one of the smartest people I’ve ever come
into contact with. His posts were of the true essence of Ruby -
concise, exact and to the point. He will be greatly missed.
Regards,
Sean
I’m very sad to hear this. His was one of the names that was, to me,
synonymous with the Ruby community. He will be missed.
–
Avdi
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:04:34AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
that’s a fantastic idea dave. matz, i don’t think it’s ever been done
before, but have you ever considered honoring ruby’s people into the
language itself? Ruby.decoux.
An easter egg in Ruby, what a fantastic idea. An undocumented
command-line switch, perhaps? ruby --about ts Or an obscure
method, hidden out-of-the-way in the Class eigenclass? Yes, that
would be nice, a method returning a brief string about Guy so we
could use it in examples for docs and tutorials or something.
_why
2008/9/25 Dave T. :
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008.
Like everyone else, I’ll miss his presence, and his wit.
A suggestion. Ruby Central was, I believe, thinking of a grant program at
some point in the future. Could his name somehow be associated with these
grants? ts gave a lot to the community. It would seem fit to use his name
when the community itself gives something to others.
Another suggestion (not incompatible) is dedicating a future Ruby
release
to him. I haven’t got a lot of examples in mind, but it’s sometimes
done in Open Source communities. For instance, the Debian 2.2 is
the Joel “Espy” Klecker Release.
But given his character, I’m not sure he would like this kind of honor
if this gesture was done in his time of living. He would prefer stay
in the shadow. I don’t know.
– Jean-François.
This is a loss for Ruby Community.
In the name of french association RubyFrance, I present my condolences
to Guy Decoux’s family, his friends and his collegues.
This is a shock and a big loss indeed.
Guy’s posts in ruby-talk is one of the reasons I stuck with Ruby.
Trying to wrap my head around the code and figure out what the answer
was and going “I’ll be damned, this guy just cranks out code faster than
I can understand it”.
I still strive to write code like Guy and his style of answering with
lots of -self explanatory- code and few unecessary words is someting I
admire even as I constantly fail to copy.
He will be missed.
V.-
2008/9/25 James G. :
We were recently discussing this at LSRC. I’m pretty sure it came up in the
panel discussion, which is online:
http://lsrc2008.confreaks.com/18-panel-ruby-designers-producers-and-consumers.html
Thanks for the link, James. I will watch the video carefully.
– Jean-François.
On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:29 AM, _why wrote:
An easter egg in Ruby, what a fantastic idea. An undocumented
command-line switch, perhaps? ruby --about ts Or an obscure
method, hidden out-of-the-way in the Class eigenclass? Yes, that
would be nice, a method returning a brief string about Guy so we
could use it in examples for docs and tutorials or something.
_why
precisely. definitely would need to be undocumented 
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:
precisely. definitely would need to be undocumented 
Yeah, this idea rocks. If would be awesome for our examples.
James Edward G. II
On Sep 24, 6:50 pm, “Jean-François Trân” [email protected]
wrote:
Hello,
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
RIP.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Dave T. [email protected] wrote:
some point in the future. Could his name somehow be associated with these
grants? ts gave a lot to the community. It would seem fit to use his name
when the community itself gives something to others.
I’ll second this. I’d love to see a Guy Decoux memorial grant (lor a
ts.
memorial grant). What a great way to honor someone who gave so much to
the
community.
On 25 Sep 2008, at 17:21, Vassilis R. wrote:
faster than I can understand it".
I still strive to write code like Guy and his style of answering
with lots of -self explanatory- code and few unecessary words is
someting I admire even as I constantly fail to copy.
I know that feeling all too well. Guy wrote beautifully terse poetry
that just happened to be Ruby, or so it often seemed, and many times
I’ve envied him that gift. Commemorating him some way within Ruby
itself would be an excellent tribute to not only his keen insight into
the deeper recesses of the language itself, but his willingness to
share that insight freely with others.
He was a true example of what makes the Ruby community so warm and
welcoming, and his passing will be felt by us all.
Ellie
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
Jean-François Trân wrote:
Hello,
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
How sad this is, and how tragic: My sincere condolences!
Bernhard
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert K. [email protected]
Date: 2008/9/26
Subject: Re: [ruby-core:18872] [RIP] Guy Decoux.
To: [email protected]
2008/9/25 Jean-François Trân [email protected]:
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
It took me a while to discover this sad news in the pile of messages.
I am very sad to hear this. What a tragedy this is. I miss him
although I never met him in person. His postings were among the most
important that guided me through my earlier Ruby days. Guy, you left
far too early.
I support the idea of naming the grant program after him. I do not
think it is a good idea to name a release after him.
robert
2008/9/25 Jean-François Trân [email protected]:
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
It took me a while to discover this sad news in the pile of messages.
I am very sad to hear this. What a tragedy this is. I miss him
although I never met him in person. His postings were among the most
important that guided me through my earlier Ruby days. Guy, you left
far too early.
I support the idea of naming the grant program after him. I do not
think it is a good idea to name a release after him.
robert
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
Thanks for your contributions, Guy!
-=R
