Many of you would know Charlie Calvert, either from his books, from conferences or from his posts on the old Borland newsgroups. It is with a very sad heart that I heard today that Charlie has passed away.
He was one of the loveliest humans you could ever hope to meet. Funny, kind, accepting, warm hearted, always genuinely interested to hear what you’d been doing. We lost one of the good ones today.
RIP Charlie.
One of the nicest people I ever met - RIP Charlie 
He really was. Not sure I ever heard him say a bad word about anyone…well, maybe except Bill Gates. And even then it was mostly restricted to wasting a few GUIDs (a finite resource, as he would remind us) as a small protest, whenever he needed to generate one.
We (EMBT) were told a little earlier today and everyone is profoundly sad to hear the news. Very, very sad. Of course, we will write something soon when we are sure the family have been given time to let the people know. He was an absolute legend. What an awful loss of a truly decent man.