Well
I'm afraid I don't have stories to tell or anecdotes I never knew Mac
at that level, we exchanged a few emails and such but nothing out of
the ordinary can be told from those. I didn't get to know him from many
dialogs, as I said I only had a few emails to work with. So I used the
next best thing to learn about him, I learned about him from his posts
scattered all over the web. Now I'm not just talking about the posts on
this forum, I'm talking about the posts that helped people learning to
program surmount the initial challenges bestowed upon most new
programmers. Some of his replies when trouble occurred somewhere, the
way he replied and handled the situations when they were presented. The
few emails I had basically confirmed to me what I've been thinking from
all these posts so I presume I wasn't half bad at reading and
understanding his posts.
I think everyone knows that Mac was true to himself and to his friends.
He's very realistic and always seemed to have both feet on the ground
at all times. One thing I always liked about Mac was his ability to
reach newcomers down to their level and bring them back up to his
level. Seemed he had a knack to explain what he wanted them to
understand in a way that typically never yielded to many other
questions from those learning from him. He might have made a great
teacher because of his ability to teach and his patience. That is to
those that wanted to learn. To those that wanted their homework done
for them, well they know (we all know) how he was and what he thought
about that. The bottom line was that Mac was someone with a lot of
knowledge and experience willing to spread that knowledge amongst
newbies and other experienced programmers alike. Getting that knowledge
was pretty simple too, all anyone had to do is ask.
Mac also knew when a subject was over his head and always gave a real
picture of if he could answer a question or not. He was always curious
about those and always eager to learn about them. He must have been a
great programmer in his career if he had these defining attributes to
work with back then. Curiosity, passion and determination are always
what makes a good programmer. Mac was full of all these qualities right
up to the last post I've read from him (and the last email I've gotten
from him too).
From the little I know compared to others here, I'll always remember
Mac as a man that wanted it and made it happen, in his career, on the
Internet and most importantly in his life as I'm sure he was the same
way there too. He won't be forgotten and I wish him the best on the
next part of his journey.
Steph
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