I just heard this from Jennifer as well. It is indeed very sad! Alain will be deeply missed!
Best wishes, Anne On 10/21/13 11:28 PM, Florent Hivert wrote: > Dear Sage-Combinat developers > > We have just learned that Alain Lascoux passed away last Saturday at > the age of 69. This is an immense loss for our community. > > Among many other things, Alain was a continuous source of inspiration > when it came to creative computer exploration, and a funding > grand-father of Sage-Combinat. Indeed, even if he didn't write himself > a line of Python or MuPAD, he had piles of Maple code that he used > daily for his research, and was one of the strongest initiator and > supporter of the tradition of developing software for combinatorics in > Marne-la-Vallée (ACE, mu-EC, ...), which eventually gave birth to > Sage-Combinat. > > We will deeply miss his knowledge, know-how, wit, kindness, and > friendship, > > With great sadness, > > best regards, > Florent and Nicolas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
