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Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died

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More from Rob Pike:
 | 
 | I was warmly surprised to see how many people responded to
 | my Google+ post about Dennis Ritchie's untimely passing.
 | His influence on the technical community was vast, and it's
 | gratifying to see it recognized. When Steve Jobs died there
 | was a wide lament - and well-deserved it was - but it's
 | worth noting that the resurgence of Apple depended a great
 | deal on Dennis's work with C and Unix.
 | 
 | The C programming language is quite old now, but still
 | active and still very much in use. The Unix and Linux (and
 | Mac OS X and I think even Windows) kernels are all C
 | programs. The web browsers and major web servers are all in
 | C or C++, and almost all of the rest of the Internet
 | ecosystem is in C or a C-derived language (C++, Java), or a
 | language whose implementation is in C or a C-derived
 | language (Python, Ruby, etc.). C is also a common
 | implementation language for network firmware. And on and on.
 | 
 | And that's just C.
 | 
 | Dennis was also half of the team that created Unix (the
 | other half being Ken Thompson), which in some form or other
 | (I include Linux) runs all the machines at Google's data
 | centers and probably at most other server farms. Most web
 | servers run above Unix kernels; most non-Microsoft web
 | browsers run above Unix kernels in some form, even in many
 | phones.
 | 
 | And speaking of phones, the software that runs the phone
 | network is largely written in C.
 | 
 | But wait, there's more.
 | ...
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    --bks

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Dennis Ritchie Has Died bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2011-10-12 22:12 -0400
  Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Sunner Sun <sunner@gmail.com> - 2011-10-12 19:24 -0700
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> - 2011-10-13 11:51 +0000
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