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Michael, I'll remember you best from GLS, working with Simple (I believe it was, a dialect of Prolog), which you referred to as "the pit-bull of programming languages: once it grabs hold, it never lets go." Have a great retirement. (Has it been that long? I guess it has.) On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Doran, Michael <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Francis, > > Thank you for remembering my "humor"-tagged posts! Those were some of my > favorites too! > > -- Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Francis Kayiwa > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 10:21 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] old dog signing off - retirement > > > > On 7/7/17 11:39 AM, Doran, Michael wrote: > > Just a note to say that I will be signing off this list later this month > due to my imminent retirement. I subscribed on the day the code4lib list > was publicly announced (back on December 9, 2003!), so I've had the > pleasure of seeing the community evolve and grow. The best part was not so > much how the code4lib community has grown in size (but that's important > too), but how it's grown in scope and inclusiveness. > > > > And although I missed the very first Code4lib conference in Corvallis, > Oregon, I was fortunate to be able to attend the next eight, from 2007 > through 2014. Those conferences were some of the most rewarding > experiences of my professional career (in terms of friends I made and stuff > I learned) and I can't say enough thanks to the conference organizers who > made that possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you! > > > > To the good people of code4lib: Goodbye and best wishes! > > > I will miss your thoughtfulness and irreverent and excellent timing of > humor. I hope retirement does well by you. > > Cheers, > ./fxk > > -- Charles Blair Director, Digital Library Development Center University of Chicago Library 1 773 702 8459 | [log in to unmask] | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~chas/