Ishii-san died #
Masaru Ishii, a great Japanese Rubyist, died at the rail disaster, where 106 people died. He introduced RubyUnit with the author1, Suketa-san. It was the predecessor of the current Test::Unit in Ruby 1.8.
I love unit testing. I pay his last respects. I don’t know what to say in English. I hope I don’t use incorrect words. I learned RubyUnit from Suketa-san’s book.
1 According to this blog, Ishii-san asked Suketa-san to create a Ruby implementation of xUnit.
Dav Coleman
Very sad news. Okuyami mousiagemasu.
MenTaLguY
Ah… indeed. Death touches us even here.
why
Daigo, your post was very respectful and very beautiful. Poor Ishii-san. How old was he?
daigo
37 years old. Too young. He would contribute a lot to Ruby, Java and others. I feel very sad to see his home page working as if nothing happened…
Bil
Tragic news. May
test/unitbe used more frequently to honor his legacy.Tomas
It is indeed sad to look at his homepage and think it was written by a dead man. I think that drives home the fragility of life, to think of him writing this or that text on the page and that he had less than a year to live at that point in time… And to lose the life in circumstances out of his control.
Robert McGovern
Has the news been feed through to Ruby-Talk/Core yet?
gab
hope he is fine, wherever he is.
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