SGML: Memory of Yuri Rubinsky (1952-1996)

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From: Raymond H. Stachowiak <74453.1747@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: Yuri Rubinsky
Date: 26 Jan 1996 13:41:15 GMT
Organization: System Consulting
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I have over the last few days read many comments and tributes to  
Yuri Rubinsky. I too was a friend of Yuri's, having worked with  
him on a number of projects over the last 8 years. However, unlike  
the academics and intellectuals thinker who naturally flocked  
around him, I am one of the working guys who Yuri always had time  
for. And that I think is the legacy he left for us to consider and  
carry forward. SGML was not an intleectual exercise, not a closed  
club for the elite to Yuri, but a technology that can be embraced  
by all to accomplish good things. I think we should all try to  
live more in that legacy, always trying to bring the theory into  
practice, tolerant of the less informed and more inclined to put  
thoughts into actions. As I said, Yuri was a friend and I too will  
miss him.