Dennis Ritchie has died at the age of 70.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie/
I'm guessing only the geeks on here will know who he was, but trust us, in our sad little worlds he was probably more influential than a certain Mr Jobs.
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printf("Goodbye World!\n");
free(dmr);
exit(2011);
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🙁
K&R was a book I used frequently at Uni.
C and Unix - not a bad legacy is it?
RIP dmr
saw it on a post from herb sutters blog this morning - a sad day.
I have a copy of his book "The C Programming Language" on my desk as we speak.
As has been said, he has left a good legacy. RIP
Sad news.
RIP
Hard to underestimate the impact that his work has had on the world of computing. RIP.
not a programmer, but geeky enough to know
unix and c - cool legacy.
and i liked that c was called c because it came after b
RIP ++
or should that be
++ RIP
?
or
RIP += 1;
Just got the same news via email. It's a shame that his passing will go unnoticed by the general populace.
Cheers++
retro83 - MemberHard to underestimate the impact that his work has had on the world of computing. RIP.
Overestimate I meant 😳
Contracting for Lucent at the moment and just noticed this on the intranet here. Sad loss. K&R C is still a book I reach for every now and again.