Timothy Rapson
01-30-2007, 12:59 AM
I just read the following at Windows Mobile 24/7
"Some sad news... "Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) was the chief designer of the Ada programming language from 1977-1983. At the time, he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France. He had previously designed an experimental system implementation language called LIS (1972–1974), based on Simula (in fact, he had been chairman of the Simula User's Group), and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages.
After Ada was selected by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Ichbiah left CII-HB and founded the Alsys Corporation in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, which continued language definition work on Ada and later went into the Ada compiler business. He later moved to the Waltham, Massachusetts subsidiary of Alsys.
Ichbiah later started the Textware company, which sells text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text entry software for Medical Transcription on PCs.
Jean Ichbiah was a member of the French Legion of Honor and the French Academy of Sciences, and received a Certificate of Distinguished Service from the DoD for his work on Ada.
He died of the complications of a brain tumor and a fall, on January 26, 2007."
I have been a FITALY user for years. It was a great program. I even helped beta test the version for one of my PDAs. Jean was a wonderful programmer. It is a real loss to the community that he will no longer be here with these great products. My guess is that he was THE programmer for Textware. If this is the end of the product he will be doubly missed.
Great guy, great work. Alas.
"Some sad news... "Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) was the chief designer of the Ada programming language from 1977-1983. At the time, he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France. He had previously designed an experimental system implementation language called LIS (1972–1974), based on Simula (in fact, he had been chairman of the Simula User's Group), and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages.
After Ada was selected by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Ichbiah left CII-HB and founded the Alsys Corporation in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, which continued language definition work on Ada and later went into the Ada compiler business. He later moved to the Waltham, Massachusetts subsidiary of Alsys.
Ichbiah later started the Textware company, which sells text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text entry software for Medical Transcription on PCs.
Jean Ichbiah was a member of the French Legion of Honor and the French Academy of Sciences, and received a Certificate of Distinguished Service from the DoD for his work on Ada.
He died of the complications of a brain tumor and a fall, on January 26, 2007."
I have been a FITALY user for years. It was a great program. I even helped beta test the version for one of my PDAs. Jean was a wonderful programmer. It is a real loss to the community that he will no longer be here with these great products. My guess is that he was THE programmer for Textware. If this is the end of the product he will be doubly missed.
Great guy, great work. Alas.