Rolled Out On: 12/15/2007 7:09 PM

You were blessed to have his comments and readership.

Rolled Out On: 12/16/2007 11:39 AM

A similar thing happened in the development of the computer game Nethack. Many of the programmers all did their work alone though internet communications (hence the 'net' prefix) one of the key members died, and many of his compatriots never met him face-to-face.

Odd phenominon indeed