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For HN readers, he's probably most famous as the inventor of the Kernel programming language. We just had a thread about it two weeks ago: https://news.ycombin

• bawolff 6y ago
  As someone who used to hang around wikinews a lot, its both interesting and in a way sad, to only find out about Pi Zero's other interests after he passed. I know we all have lives outside of our screen names, but sometimes its easy to forget that. Anyways, in the capacity i knew him, he was always a kind caring, rational voice. One which will be missed.
  • acagastya 6y ago
    Pi zero separated his wiki-identity and real life identity. When his family told me about his death, I contacted a number of people who knew Dr Shutt academically. They were unaware of his work on-wiki just like most Wikimedians didn't know about his work outsite Wikinews. It was my fortune to have known about his work both on and off wiki.
• oxymoron 6y ago
  I think this explanation of the core ideas in kernel deserves more attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170536
• miloignis 6y ago
  Oh my gosh! I found his Kernel work so inspiring, I, like many others, implemented a version in a hobby project. I was always happy to see his comments when I was reading Lambda the Ultimate, excited to see his always carefully thought out and unique perspective. I'm sad I'll never be able to chat with him directly about his ideas. Learning he was so prolific in other areas isn't surprising, but it is impressive. RIP to a great mind, and best wishes for his family.