計算機領域有什么凄美的故事？

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@ZjzMisaka。

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一個男孩給女孩寫了一行代碼

女孩回了一行代碼

男孩看到后：

很凄美

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一個男孩給女孩寫了一行代碼

女孩回了一行代碼

男孩看到后：

很凄美

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一個男孩給女孩寫了一行代碼

女孩回了一行代碼

男孩看到后：

很凄美

zip創始人Phil Katz的故事其實挺慘的。。當時電腦儲存成本很高，壓縮軟件相比來說就非常重要。然而一家獨大的壓縮軟件ARC卻要收費，Phil Katz看不慣就自己寫了個免費的壓縮軟件兼容了ARC，結果被ARC打壓。他一氣之下索性自己寫了個zip出來，算法完爆了ARC并且直接免費發放，最后zip把ARC搞垮了。隨后基于zip的7-zip的推出讓我們現在能夠理所應當得用著高質量的免費壓縮工具，這都多虧了Phil Katz的開源精神，然而他自己卻染上了酗酒的惡習，窮困潦倒早早在37歲時孤獨的死在了汽車旅館里。

現在流行的Winrar，因為zip格式免費就毫無壓力地兼容zip，而靠著自己rar的授權費讓很多免費zip軟件無法虧血本反向兼容rar而成就了其壓縮軟件的霸主地位。想想Phil Katz自己嘔心瀝血付出生命為之奮斗的開源精神卻被其他人用來反制于己，更覺得悲哀。以前聽說過PL領域的Tom Reps(Thomas W. Reps - Wikipedia)和追Susan Horwitz(Susan B. Horwitz)的八卦，接觸過program slicing的人應該對他倆都比較熟悉。他倆合作過很多論文和項目，Interprocedural Slicing using Dependence Graphs(http://research.cs.wisc.edu/wpis/papers/toplas90.pdf PLDI88)和Precise Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis via Graph Reachability(https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wpis/papers/popl95.pdf POPL95)以及Wisconsin Program-Slicing Project 名氣很大。第一次聽到他倆的事跡，感覺就是一對神仙眷侶。

然而Susan得了癌癥，14年6月份去世了。那時候在微博看到一個Tom Reps在Susan離世前幾天的日記片段，感人肺腑。斯人也而有斯疾也。

現在網上還有一篇Tom Reps悼念亡妻的報告(http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~reps/talks/TWR-script.pdf)。更新:剛剛知道截圖中的內容來自Tom Reps在caringbridge上(You're Invited to Visit a CaringBridge Website | Sign in to CaringBridge ,需要Google或Facebook帳號登錄)的一篇記錄6月以前Susan狀態的日記。For the two weeks May 20 - June 3, Susan continued to be active with knitting (she knitted 9 hats and 2 scarves for me to deliver to the YWCA project), reading and being read to, listening to books on CD, watching DVDs, playing on-line scrabble, and having visits from friends. Much of the time she stayed in bed in our bedroom at our house, but she was also able to enjoy the view of Lake Mendota from the upstairs porch off of the bedroom. We also had beneficial visits from out-of-town friends: first, Susan's sister Amy, and then our friend Tim Teitelbaum.By June 3, Susan had gotten too weak for me to be the only one to care for her, so on June 5 we moved to the Agrace hospice facility just south of Madison (http://www.agrace.org/agracecampus). Moving to the hospice facility was definitely the right move. There was some confusion due to the nurses' protocols for administering morphine being different from what we had been doing at home, but that was eventually straightened out: Susan is now connected to an infusion pump and can self-administer additional morphine at 15-minute intervals if necessary.Susan is becoming progressively weaker, and is a bit confused at times; however, she can still focus when necessary. At this point, she is in a very quiet state. She is very weak (at one point she said, "I feel like I could just float off"), and can no longer speak much louder than a whisper. Earlier I thought that was because of dry mouth -- which she also has -- caused by the morphine that she is taking; however, the doctor said that it is really the lack of respiratory strength to push air past the vocal cords to make them vibrate.Susan is undergoing a slow fade out, and it is sad to see her in this diminished state. Yesterday, the doctor told us "a few days to two weeks". There is little I can do for Susan except massage her feet and legs to try to address the swelling from the fluid that accumulates in them as her body shuts down (and massage her hands and head to provide some tactile stimulation).We have been listening to music that is both gentle and evokes memories of our travels and friends: Alla's "Foundou from Bechar" (Foundou de Bechar); Jan Garbarek's "Officium" (Officium - Jan Garbarek,The Hilliard Ensemble | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic); Niels-Henning ?rsted Pedersen's (NH?P) "To a Brother" (To a Brother by Niels Henning ?rsted Pedersen @ARTISTdirect); and Ottmar Liebert's "Nouveau Flamenco" (Nouveau Flamenco). Thanks to Ahmed Bouajjani, Mooly Sagiv, and Debra Harris for having introduced us to this music. For what it is worth, "Foundou from Bechar" turns out to be the perfect accompaniment to massage -- peaceful, yet complex. Earlier we worked with two professional masseuses in Madison, and both agreed. One especially liked it because she was finding it difficult to locate music that she could listen to it over and over each day with different customers. Each shift of nurses at Agrace has commented on how wonderful the music is for their type of patients.另一篇上還貼了Susan的遺言。Very dear friends and family,I am very sorry to have left you, but I want you to know that it was a peaceful death, made much easier by your constant love and support. I leave without major regrets: I had a wonderful life, with such a loving family and so many friends from my childhood in Syracuse, to people encountered during sabbaticals who became close friends, to those I met via the University here in Madison, Saddle Ridge Stable, my neighborhood poker group, and BDDS.I was so fortunate to find Tom, a husband, friend, and companion who brought me endless joy throughout the years. Leaving Tom is the hardest part of dying.I was also fortunate to find a career that I loved and that brought me success. I feel that I've touched some students lives in a positive way, which makes me very happy. And I also kept a good balance between work and other activities: cooking, music, horse- and bike-riding, yoga, reading, and movie-watching. I've been all over the world on horseback, from Iceland to Mongolia, and Tom and I have biked Vancouver Island, Denmark, and Italy, to say nothing of the famous "13 flat tires in 3 days" ride from London to Didcot.My bucket list is empty; I go with no major regrets, other than leaving all of you. Thank you all for your generosity and love through the years.Susan那個鏈接還提到POPL 2015有專門為Radhia Cousot(另一個偉大的女性計算機科學家,Radhia Cousot - Wikipedia)和Susan Horwitz的紀念演講。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-W_uBEI28https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA91fKdibCkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iopoGsR8c并特地提到了Susan以前的一個學生、nctu的教授Wuu Yang為她辦的一場超度法事(Back in October 2014, Wuu wrote to say, ``The whole ceremony lasted for 2 hours, mostly the monks reading the Buddhist bible for Susan.)。