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This article is a profile, not an obituary (I'd expect an obituary to state that she died, and give a date). What's the source that reported her death? I searched the web, but couldn't find any. At the moment, her Wikipedia article refers to her in the past tense, but doesn't cite a source for her death either.

(In case the title changes, this comment refers to the original HN title: "Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died".)




It was reported on a mailing list of ex-Bell labs staff and other early UNIX users. This write up of her career was the best one I could find, sourced from information there. It's from 2018 when she got an award. If you have a better one I'd welcome it being posted.


Thanks for the confirmation. I first saw her mentioned when I started using Unix in 1979, and am sorry to hear of her passing.




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