Re: The passing of Spider Boardman

Sad news indeed. It's even more painful considering that the numbers of the
infection are sinking but he could not benefit of it. My condolences to the
family.

-- bronto


Il Mer 26 Mag 2021, 02:34 Neil Bowers <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> I’m sad to have to report that Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN) has
> recently passed away, due to complications of COVID.
>
> Spider released several distributions to CPAN, one of which (Net::Dnet) is
> still there. It looks like he tidied up older things.
>
> Spider originally worked at Digital, where his daughter told me he worked
> on Unix (and presumably then Ultrix), and then stayed through acquisitions
> by Compaq and then HP, where he had worked on security.
>
> Looking at early Perl 5 releases, I found that he not only contributed bug
> fixes to Perl itself, but was also contributing tweaks to hints files as
> well.
>
> Neil
>