From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom9=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Sat Jan 25 13:20:45 2025 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom9 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom9@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 90661356DBA; Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:20:45 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from vsmx001.tt.xion.oxcs.net (vsmx001.tt.xion.oxcs.net [153.92.124.184]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66631356D46 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:20:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from proxy-10.proxy.shared.ns.xion.oxcs.net (proxy-10.proxy.shared.ns.xion.oxcs.net [2.100.204.175]) by mx-out.tt.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 27835A438BE; Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:20:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tt.xion.oxcs.net; s=mail1; t=1737807644; bh=oenp2Jq8OI5dmHRYyEm//RvVIw/LleL11bgRlVLCRKo=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=a0xocbRE8ToceRjxTVZVRNuE97xnAq1EtOWvspwV6uqOflFfWJLHnDcErnrEk2s+O tASLWG7nkJyDTmtH8fGROjjFs64zQgBE0/mlweL3lKrD/Ly7fhpjn2K1JUgbvePQZS t/Z8rGJBgWW2M79K/H6Zsz2G9+FtEsaiRf9p4ZdZ6lAGJ1/8N6chFnNWwSqPDpix0y n0DzXBElLZBjzQCUZ9kEmt9HP0y4ai9jPV/jEMlJd60rGSO7IzpNI1oR+gmzGrgn5x s5ATHXnF69PfoqSFHAxIAfrwW3FWvjwRRZFK6RPW14xRqKsd9rR14pb10PsuX6OCd/ 81EVj9ooI4Stw== Subject: Re: [J3] [SC22WG5.6665] Richard Grove To: General J3 interest list , WG5 Cc: Steve Lionel References: <20250124215754.0D49A356C4E@www.open-std.org> From: John Reid Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:20:40 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20250124215754.0D49A356C4E@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VadeSecure-Status: LEGIT X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Steve, He is listed in the front of the Fortran 77 standard as one of its developers and he was present at my first J3 meeting (Jan 81). I think he stepped away from J3 at the end of 81, which was when I became an alternate for Brian Smith and attended meetings. I am sorry to say, I do not remember him. John. Steve Lionel via J3 wrote: > Richard (Rich) Grove, who was the project lead for early DEC Fortran > compilers, including VAX FORTRAN, died peacefully on January 22. His > obituary is at Richard Grove Obituary > . > > Rich was responsible for starting my career in Fortran, and I worked > closely with him through the decades until he retired from Intel in > 2007. His obit says he was a member of the Fortran standards > committee, so some of you may remember him - this would have been in > the 1970s. I considered Rich my mentor and I learned a lot from him. > He was also a heck of a nice guy! > > Steve