Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Dennis Ritchie dies at 70 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:12:42 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8772 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:20:00 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >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. UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ~ Dennis Ritchie 1941-09-09 2011-10-08 -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It should not be considered an error when the user starts something already started or stops something already stopped. This applies to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone, e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.