• Mel Smith

    From Dan@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 18:11:19 2025
    Dear friends, since months we have no news about our friend Mel Smith,
    and his site whosaway.com is not on-line anymore.
    I found this obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/conover-nc/melvin-smith-12059484
    Mel since 2011 had devoted time and effort to support the community of programmaers. He put on his server (whosaway.com) many versions of Harbour/xHarbour, compilers, libraries, and everything useful for xbase programmers.
    Every 6 months or so he traveled from South to North and vice-versa,
    moving also his server to keep online whosaway.com. He politely
    announced every time that the site would have beeen down for a couple of
    days. Many times some of us wished him a good travel... many kilometers
    to go by car, for a senior alone.
    He was a passionate golf player, and often when he planned to examine
    something he announced "tomorrow, today golfing!" :-)
    I was in touch with him for a while 15 years ago or so.
    R.I.P Mel, we will remember your committment and valuable contribution.
    Dan

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  • From Enrico Maria Giordano@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 19:55:41 2025
    I'm very very sad... :-(

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    Enrico Maria Giordano

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