Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: B1ll Gat3s Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Dennis Ritchie dies at 70 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:59:11 -0400 Organization: 0wnz0ring j00r b0x s1nce 1987 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: oE1kLVpTQx+CgDzVLdamnA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.0/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8802 On 13/10/2011 8:40 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:20:00 -0700, markspace wrote: > >> Dennis Ritchie, whose work creating the C programming language and the >> Unix operating system became the cornerstone of today’s modern world of >> computing, has died. He was 70. >> >> Ritchie’s death was announced Wednesday in a staff memo from Jeong Kim, >> president of Bell Labs, where Ritchie worked from 1967 to 2007. >> >> pioneer-dies-at-70/?tsp=1> > > I think these obits say a little more...... > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie/ > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie_obituary/ None of these links say what actually got him. Was it just old age? 70's a *touch* young for that, though. -- A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) 00010E36. The current application will be terminated. * Press any key to terminate the current application.