I don't know how many of you knew of Alan Eldridge - I met him because of
my work with Eric Van Riper.. and  Dj Delorie's c++ compiler, that Alan
worked on (AE* libraries, etc.) back in the mid 90's..  now and again he'd
be bored and would kick out a program and send it over to me for the PDN..
I still have one of them at least in the pdnunix directory..  I still
remember him joking about a person like me (a grandmother )
getting into *nix .. he said all he could picture was a little granny
awkin' and grep'n all day long 

His more current work I understand, was with KDE under Free-Bsd..and I'm
sure he will be sorely missed in the linux community.

There's an article about Alan on the Linux News site:

http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003060901426NWCYDV

May he rest in peace ..

Take care,
Janis

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