RIP Dennis Ritchie

[webwit]

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.

[Ascaii]

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.

[woody]

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.

[lal]

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

[daedalus]

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.

[Findecanor]

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

[Daniel Beaver]

RIP. The people who matter will remember

[7bit]

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 ...

[Brian8bit]

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)

[webwit]

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.

[ripster]

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

All I learned was BASIC and Fortran.

[Findecanor]

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

[itlnstln]

Three icons in computing have died this month

Can you restore them from the Recycle Bin?

[webwit]

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

Steve Jobs however was reincarnated.

[mintberryminuscrunch]

good for him

[cheynestoking]

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