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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C
programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us. |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:16:56 -0700, Cameo
wrote: I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us. Thanks for helping me spend 3+ hours that I hadn't planned to spend. From Dennis Ritchie, I floated through a bunch of Steve Jobs articles, then on to some other related blogs, and finally ended at the Wikipedia page for Richard Stallman. As for Ritchie, thanks for the heads up. Sounds like he deserves more credit than he'll probably ever receive. -- Char Jackson |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
In article , Cameo
said... I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us. A giant indeed, on whose shoulders many public people have stood. Goodbye, World! |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
On 10/15/2011 9:56 AM, Jake wrote:
A giant indeed, on whose shoulders many public people have stood. Well said. |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
"Char Jackson" wrote:
Cameo wrote: I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us. Thanks for helping me spend 3+ hours that I hadn't planned to spend. From Dennis Ritchie, I floated through a bunch of Steve Jobs articles, then on to some other related blogs, and finally ended at the Wikipedia page for Richard Stallman. As for Ritchie, thanks for the heads up. Sounds like he deserves more credit than he'll probably ever receive. Agreed. There are a couple of threads on alt.folklore.computers where you can find material from people who met him. (I never met him in person, but did exchange emails with him relating to Unix history.) One tribute - which I didn't write but wish I had though of - was that "if Steve Jobs was the architect of the modern computer, Dennis Richie was the steelmaker that made it possible." Many tributes to him - far too many to count - on the Internet ran along the lines of #include stdio.h void main () { printf ("Goodbye, world.\n"); } Yesterday's issues of both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post had quarter-page obituaries for Dennis. Both mentioned that unlike Jobs, Dennis was almost completely unknown outside of the computer community. Joe Morris |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:25:58 -0400, Joe Morris wrote:
"Char Jackson" wrote: Cameo wrote: I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us. Thanks for helping me spend 3+ hours that I hadn't planned to spend. From Dennis Ritchie, I floated through a bunch of Steve Jobs articles, then on to some other related blogs, and finally ended at the Wikipedia page for Richard Stallman. As for Ritchie, thanks for the heads up. Sounds like he deserves more credit than he'll probably ever receive. Agreed. There are a couple of threads on alt.folklore.computers where you can find material from people who met him. (I never met him in person, but did exchange emails with him relating to Unix history.) One tribute - which I didn't write but wish I had though of - was that "if Steve Jobs was the architect of the modern computer, Dennis Richie was the steelmaker that made it possible." Many tributes to him - far too many to count - on the Internet ran along the lines of #include stdio.h void main () { printf ("Goodbye, world.\n"); } Wow. That sure tugs at the heartstrings :-( Right to the point. Yesterday's issues of both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post had quarter-page obituaries for Dennis. Both mentioned that unlike Jobs, Dennis was almost completely unknown outside of the computer community. Joe Morris -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Dennis Ritchie, R.I.P.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:56:46 -0700, Cameo
wrote: On 10/15/2011 9:56 AM, Jake wrote: A giant indeed, on whose shoulders many public people have stood. Well said. Agree. I did not know he passed Thanks He was from my side of the world. Al |
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