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Old October 15th 11, 09:16 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Cameo
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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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Old October 15th 11, 05:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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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Old October 15th 11, 05:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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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Old October 15th 11, 07:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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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Old October 16th 11, 12:25 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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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Old October 16th 11, 10:47 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_2_]
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Default 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



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Old December 6th 18, 12:01 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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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