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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
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Alberto <afm.work@gmail.com> - 2011-10-13 06:58 -0700
          Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-10-15 08:44 +0200
            Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2011-10-17 14:15 +0000
              Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-10-20 07:53 +0200
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-10-13 15:23 +0100
          Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> - 2011-10-13 15:08 +0000
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died sbalneav <sbalneav@alburg.net> - 2011-10-13 09:39 -0500
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-10-13 16:04 +0100
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died tea strainer <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-10-13 16:32 +0000
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-10-13 16:37 +0000
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-14 21:28 -0700
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Anoop Kammaran <kammaran_anoop@columbusstate.edu> - 2011-10-14 06:58 -0700
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-14 16:38 +0200
          Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-10-14 16:52 +0000
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died lovecreatesbeauty <lovecreatesbeauty@gmail.com> - 2011-10-13 09:55 -0700
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Gary <gjwatersjr@gmail.com> - 2011-10-13 10:21 -0700
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 21:27 +0300
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Weifu <elviseno@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 00:40 -0700
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Mike Manilone <zhtx10@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 15:57 +0800
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-14 13:06 +0000
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died sbalneav <sbalneav@alburg.net> - 2011-10-14 08:37 -0500
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-10-14 10:17 -0600
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-10-14 13:30 -0400
          Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> - 2011-10-14 13:50 -0400
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-10-14 18:12 +0200
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-10-14 10:20 -0600
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-10-14 18:26 +0200
      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-14 21:35 -0700
        Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-17 21:44 -0700
    Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died army1987 <army1987@ask-for-it.invalid> - 2011-10-14 17:42 +0000

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#11650

Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP. 

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#11652

disagree.

On 2011-10-14 15:40, Weifu wrote:
> C is not used so much now

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#11656

On Fri, 2011-10-14, Weifu wrote:
> Sad. C is not used so much now,

It is one of the most used languages. I work with it all day, and have
done so for fifteen years. And when I don't, I work with C++, which
wouldn't have been viable without C.

> Thanks DMR. RIP.

Yes, thanks.

/Jorgen

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\X/     snipabacken.se>   O  o   .

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#11659

On 11-10-14 02:40 AM, Weifu wrote:
> Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.

It's the second most popular language out there:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

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#11671

Weifu <elviseno@gmail.com> writes:

> Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP. 

You may be in an environment where one of the newer languages (C++, java,
perl, python, php...) is used, but over all C is still used a *lot*.
Each of the languages I just named as examples are implemented in it...

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#11679

On 10/14/2011 12:17 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Weifu<elviseno@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.
>
> You may be in an environment where one of the newer languages (C++, java,
> perl, python, php...) is used, but over all C is still used a *lot*.
> Each of the languages I just named as examples are implemented in it...

Well, "mainstream" media is finally picking up the story.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/

==========
> "Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on"
>
> The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won't match the river of praise that spilled
> out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.
>
> And then some.
>
> "When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very
> moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn't
> even know who he is," says Rob Pike, the programming legend and current
> Googler who spent 20 years working across the hall from Ritchie at the famed
> Bell Labs.
[...]
==========


-- 
Kenneth Brody

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#11681

Kenneth Brody wrote:

> On 10/14/2011 12:17 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Weifu<elviseno@gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails 
>>> me. Thanks DMR. RIP.
>>
>>
>> You may be in an environment where one of the newer languages (C++, 
>> java,
>> perl, python, php...) is used, but over all C is still used a *lot*.
>> Each of the languages I just named as examples are implemented in it...
>
>
> Well, "mainstream" media is finally picking up the story.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/ 
>
>
> ==========
>
>> "Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on"
>>
>> The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won't match the river of praise that 
>> spilled
>> out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.
>>
>> And then some.
>>
>> "When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that 
>> was very
>> moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public 
>> doesn't
>> even know who he is," says Rob Pike, the programming legend and current
>> Googler who spent 20 years working across the hall from Ritchie at 
>> the famed
>> Bell Labs.
>
> [...]
> ==========
>
>
Very nice article indeed...

   - Dave Rivers -


-- 
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Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com

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#11670

Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:
>> Sad news.  Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
>> died at his home this weekend after a long illness.  Ritchie
>> created the C programming language and was a key contributor
>> to Unix.  In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
>> time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
>> systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX.  He was
>> elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
> 
>     --bks
> 

sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?

not a native speaker...

bye

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#11672

superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> writes:

> Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:
>>> Sad news.  Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
>>> died at his home this weekend after a long illness.  Ritchie
>>> created the C programming language and was a key contributor
>>> to Unix.  In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
>>> time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
>>> systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX.  He was
>>> elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
>>
>>     --bks
>>
>
> sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?
>
> not a native speaker...
>
> bye

"is dead" describes the current state, "has died" describes the event.
So, this phrasing is used to express a feeling about his dying as a
recent event.

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#11675

Joe Pfeiffer ha scritto:
> superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> writes:
> 
>> Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:
>>>> Sad news.  Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
>>>> died at his home this weekend after a long illness.  Ritchie
>>>> created the C programming language and was a key contributor
>>>> to Unix.  In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
>>>> time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
>>>> systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX.  He was
>>>> elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
>>>     --bks
>>>
>> sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?
>>
>> not a native speaker...
>>
>> bye
> 
> "is dead" describes the current state, "has died" describes the event.
> So, this phrasing is used to express a feeling about his dying as a
> recent event.

copy that

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#11718

On Oct 15, 12:12 am, superpollo <superpo...@tznvy.pbz> wrote:
> Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:
>
> >> Sad news.  Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
> >> died at his home this weekend after a long illness.  Ritchie
> >> created the C programming language and was a key contributor
> >> to Unix.  In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
> >> time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
> >> systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX.  He was
> >> elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
>
> >     --bks
>
> sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?
>
> not a native speaker...
>
> bye

The present perfect represents events that have "just occured". In
your example, the predicate adjective has an identical meaning.

In this connection note an oddity: that "to be born" has no active
voice and "to die" no passive. As Shakespeare observed, we come crying
hither to this great stage of fools, borne by she who bears, and
although as Shakespeare also observed, we must endure our going hence,
the language has us dying as an act. We may die, we might be killed,
but we may not "be died".

Or, as David Mamet in collaboration with Quentin Tarantino might have
written:

She: Who the fuck is Zed?
He: Zed's fucking dead, baby, Zed's dead.

Replacing that team with Joseph Conrad and TS Eliot we obtain:

Mistah Kurtz he dead

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#11847

On Oct 14, 11:35 pm, spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

<an eloquent testimonial of the anguish shared among even trolls>

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#11680

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:12:30 -0400, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

>> Sad news.  Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie died at
>> his home this weekend after a long illness.  Ritchie created the C
>> programming language and was a key contributor to Unix.  In 1983 he
>> received the Turing Award with his long time colleague Ken Thompson for
>> the development of operating systems theory and the implementation of
>> the UNIX.  He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in
>> 1988.
> 
>     --bks

May he rest in peace.



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