Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 12:52:11 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="9522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Z1eNL/EGFWML3S84t8/fQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E3i1Kb7J7uILzrH3qUU1TgMuexQ= sha1:WIV47So4B4g6A49yp6wmhTJt+9w= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:89980 Malcolm McLean writes: > On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 6:38:40 PM UTC+1, Charles Richmond wrote: >> "Bill Cunningham" wrote in message >> news:nl966b$c57$1@dont-email.me... >> > I was told that DMR' thesis was in "recursive functions". Now I've >> > always assumed maybe being wrong that back then this may have been a >> > mathematics recursive functions and he was a Mathematician. Does anyone >> > know if his PhD was mathematics or computer science? >> > >> >> Dennis Ritchie, *not* Denis Ritchie ... >> > I believe he spelt it "Dennis". But the name is actually "Dionysius", > from the god of wine. That's what he would have been called when > he received his degree, at least at Oxford, I imagine the American > Ivy Leagues follow the same convention. If that's a joke, I don't get it. If it's not a joke, citation needed. (Yes, the name Dennis apparently is derived from Dionysius. That doesn't mean Dionysius is "actually" Dennis Ritchie's name.)p -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"