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.


printf("Goodbye World!\n");
free(dmr);
exit(2011);


🙁

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 – Member

Hard 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.