{"id":34338,"date":"2021-12-02T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34338"},"modified":"2021-12-13T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:20:11","slug":"william-cook-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/02\/william-cook-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"William Cook, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.latenightsw.com\/t\/rip-william-cook\/3407\">Hamish Sanderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/forum.latenightsw.com\/t\/rip-william-cook\/3407\"><p>Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShriramKMurthi\/status\/1453792431762296834\">Shriram Krishnamurthi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShriramKMurthi\/status\/1453792431762296834\">\n<p>Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he returned after a decade in industry (AppleScript!) I invited him to @BrownCSDept (where he got his PhD from Peter Wegner) and we became friends. Tragic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~wcook\/papers\/InheritanceSubtyping90\/CookPOPL90.pdf\">Inheritance Is Not Subtyping<\/a> (1990)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~wcook\/Drafts\/2006\/ashopl.pdf\">AppleScript<\/a> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~wcook\/Drafts\/2009\/essay.pdf\">On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited<\/a> (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/larry-tesler-rip\/\">Larry Tesler, RIP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"william-cook-rip-update-2021-12-13\">Update (2021-12-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/film_girl\/status\/1466919185636749313\">Christina Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/film_girl\/status\/1466919185636749313\"><p>I&rsquo;m nobody -- but I can&rsquo;t express how much AppleScript meant to me as a kid when I was starting to figure out what programming was and how to do things. To this day, I still love to automate all the things. RIP Dr. Cook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~wcook\/papers\/AppleScript\/AppleScript95.pdf\">The Open Scripting Architecture: Automating, Integrating, and Customizing Applications<\/a> (1993)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29433833\">Hacker News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish Sanderson: Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57. Shriram Krishnamurthi: Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he returned after a decade in industry (AppleScript!) I invited him to @BrownCSDept (where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-02T21:51:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"744ae848-502c-44d5-b304-9734d8c5c3ab","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-13T14:20:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdEroSFAsRNWzBJc02MXDqw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,263,295,46,30,71,208,922,1227],"class_list":["post-34338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-applescript","tag-theory","tag-history","tag-languagedesign","tag-mac","tag-programming","tag-rip","tag-system-7","tag-top-posts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34399,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338\/revisions\/34399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}