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Dennis Ritchie passed away. Of course his influence has been much bigger than Steve Jobs' ever was, although CNN doesn't seem to run a story this time. His ideas and its descendants are probably running on every computer and cellphone on this planet.

Ill share a quote I read today:

Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011). His pointer has been cast to void *; his process has terminated with exit code 0.

webwit wrote:Dennis Ritchie passed away. Of course his influence has been much bigger than Steve Jobs' ever was, although CNN doesn't seem to run a story this time. His ideas and its descendants are probably running on every computer and cellphone on this planet.

One either understands the impact he made or doesn't.

RIP dmr.

Shit. What a loss. He'll never share his experience with the ASR-33 with us.

I must say - this saddened me more than Steve Jobs' passing. I guess it's to do with my constant exposure to the products of Mr. Ritchie, and not those of Mr. Jobs.

Mmm.. There is an old saying: "C programmers never die. They are just cast into void."

RIP. The people who matter will remember

webwit wrote:Dennis Ritchie passed away. Of course his influence has been much bigger than Steve Jobs' ever was, although CNN doesn't seem to run a story this time. His ideas and its descendants are probably running on every computer and cellphone on this planet.

That's really a sad news!

Without Jobs I'd simply use a different window manager, without Ritchie I'd still code in Pascal and would use an operating system which had been coded in assembler ...

Not been a good few weeks for tech at all. John McCarthy is dead now as well (inventor of LISP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCar ... scientist)

Damn. When I learned C and LISP in college, someone told me if you know these you know basically all programming languages. All can be derived from these. He was right.

Damn, no wonder I'm so bad at HTML.

All I learned was BASIC and Fortran.

Three icons in computing have died this month... Will someone else die in the six days that are left?

Findecanor wrote:Three icons in computing have died this month

Can you restore them from the Recycle Bin?

UNIX beards don't have a recycle bin so they cannot be restored.

Steve Jobs however was reincarnated.

good for him

Nice to see the Fedora Project dedicated their latest release to dmr: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fed ... ation.html