[cppsnob]

Heh, Naggum. Why do we still talk about him? Did he build awesome things? Did he change the world? Affect so many lives by being a great teacher?

One thing he did do was hate a lot. You can find him throwing hate at whatever it is you hate, no problem. Perl, C++, XML... whatever (except Lisp), he probably wrote an article flaming it. So when you want to find a well-written article lambasting whatever it is you hate, you can look to Naggum.

And while he wrote those thousands of USENET posts, the rest of us were off building great things with the stuff he hated on. He was barely on my radar until he died, and looking through archives I realized he actually responded to me a couple times. I guess I was too busy making stuff to pay much attention.

[aerique]

I can't really be bothered to cite references since I'm typing this on an iPad and I doubt you'd care but I do like to point out for others than he has build great things and worked on influential projects (take SGML for example).

I can only dream to attain 10% of the technical prowess he achieved in his short life.

[frr149]

Erik was a jerk who ruined comp.lang.lisp for years. I can't believe people still praise him.