Erik Naggum, 1965-2009 RIP

Eight years ago, I wrote a small web application in perl for a Norwegian law firm in Oslo. Erik had done some consulting for them, and was very friendly when we discussed the project in meetings. But later he was exceptionally harsh in his emails, saying among other things, that I had created some of the biggest security holes he had ever seen.

He rewrote the web application himself in common lisp in a few hours. Creating a framework for web apps on the way. I never invoiced the customer just to avoid any further discussions with Erik.

Erik admitted however, that some of my code was a bit interesting. It was the first time he saw code with unit tests.

His ideas for using lisp instead of xml was brilliant, and it's very said he's gone.

As an extreme encomium, can anyone point to something he actually did?