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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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#11605 — Dennis Ritchie Has Died

> 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

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#11606

On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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

RIP dmr

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#11616

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:24:02 -0700, Sunner Sun wrote:

> On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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
> 
> RIP dmr

#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
  printf("Thanks! (requiescat in pace)\n");
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ___________________
< Are we THERE yet? >
 -------------------
  \
   \
       ___  
     {~._.~}
      ( Y )
     ()~*~()   
     (_)-(_)   
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#11620

On Oct 13, 1:51 pm, Kleuskes & Moos <kleu...@somewhere.else.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:24:02 -0700, Sunner Sun wrote:
> > On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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
>
> > RIP dmr
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int
> main(void)
> {
>   printf("Thanks! (requiescat in pace)\n");
>   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>
> }
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ___________________
> < Are we THERE yet? >
>  -------------------
>   \
>    \
>        ___  
>      {~._.~}
>       ( Y )
>      ()~*~()  
>      (_)-(_)  
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

rip

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#11724

"Alberto" <afm.work@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:02f0d8fc-d406-4a88-9427-b1b440cc28bf@f36g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 13, 1:51 pm, Kleuskes & Moos <kleu...@somewhere.else.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:24:02 -0700, Sunner Sun wrote:
> > On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
> > RIP dmr

rip

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#11811

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.
 | ...
<https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts#101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY>

    --bks

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#11898

"Bradley K. Sherman" <bks@panix.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:j7hdaa$ba7$2@reader1.panix.com...
> More from Rob Pike:
> |
> | I was warmly surprised to see how many people responded to
> | my Google+ post about Dennis Ritchie's untimely passing.

quasi tutti i programmatori dovrebbero aver letto approfonditamente
K&R2 e questo ha dato un so che di familiarità agli autori

> | 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

quando qualcuno muore, si deve sempre un riposo in pace e
possa vedere la luce di Dio per gioire di nuovo

> - 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.
> | ...
> <https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts#101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY>
>
>    --bks
> 

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#11622

Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> writes:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:24:02 -0700, Sunner Sun wrote:
>
>> On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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
<snip>

> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int
> main(void)
> {
>   
>   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> }

I think:

  #include <stdio.h>
   
  main()
  {
      printf("Thanks\n");
      return (0);
  }

is more appropriate (though the change in the string is just personal
taste).

-- 
Ben.

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#11627

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:23:46 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:24:02 -0700, Sunner Sun wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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
> <snip>
> 
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int
>> main(void)
>> {
>>   
>>   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>> }
> 
> I think:
> 
>   #include <stdio.h>
>    
>   main()
>   {
>       printf("Thanks\n");
>       return (0);
>   }
> 
> is more appropriate (though the change in the string is just personal
> taste).

Nack. His brainchild grew beyond the original K&R, the C89-version reflects
this. The only flaw is that i forgot to include stdlib.h

The sentiment is the same, though. A great man died.

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#11625

On 11-10-12 09:12 PM, 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
>

My sympathies go out to his family and friends.  It's too bad
there won't be the same level of public grief for Dennis R. as
there was for Steve J.  I'd argue Dennis has had the greater
impact on the computing world than Steve did; Steve made a
nice house with a good paintjob and flashy curtains.

Dennis poured the foundation.

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#11626

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.

	#include <stdio.h>
	
	main()
	{
	    printf("goodbye, world\n");
	}

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#11628

Bradley K. Sherman writes:
>> 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.

You're off-topic here. This group discusses the C language. Try asking 
over at soc.history.science where the experts hang out - they'll be able 
to give you a better answer to your question.

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#11629

In article <j773q8$hsh$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
tea strainer  <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>Bradley K. Sherman writes:
>>> 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.
>
>You're off-topic here. This group discusses the C language. Try asking 
>over at soc.history.science where the experts hang out - they'll be able 
>to give you a better answer to your question.

Well done!  Applause, applause.

-- 
But the Bush apologists hope that you won't remember all that. And they
also have a theory, which I've been hearing more and more - namely,
that President Obama, though not yet in office or even elected, caused the
2008 slump. You see, people were worried in advance about his future
policies, and that's what caused the economy to tank. Seriously.

    (Paul Krugman - Addicted to Bush)

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#11716

On Oct 14, 12:37 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
wrote:
> In article <j773q8$hs...@speranza.aioe.org>,
> tea strainer  <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >Bradley K. Sherman writes:
> >>> 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.
>
> >You're off-topic here. This group discusses the C language. Try asking
> >over at soc.history.science where the experts hang out - they'll be able
> >to give you a better answer to your question.
>
> Well done!  Applause, applause.
>
> --
> But the Bush apologists hope that you won't remember all that. And they
> also have a theory, which I've been hearing more and more - namely,
> that President Obama, though not yet in office or even elected, caused the
> 2008 slump. You see, people were worried in advance about his future
> policies, and that's what caused the economy to tank. Seriously.
>
>     (Paul Krugman - Addicted to Bush)

Hi Kenny...just dropped by to commemorate Dennis' death since I have a
show today and later I'm joining a Hong Kong demonstration in support
of #occupywallstreet. I see where the Focus Nazis still are without
shame. Give my regards to Heathfield and Seebach.

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#11662

On Oct 13, 9:32 pm, tea strainer <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Bradley K. Sherman writes:
> >> 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.
>
> You're off-topic here. This group discusses the C language. Try asking
> over at soc.history.science where the experts hang out - they'll be able
> to give you a better answer to your question.

Come on!!! If it wasn't for him, this group wouldn't even exist...

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#11664

Anoop Kammaran wrote:

> Come on!!!

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html

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#11677

Noob <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Anoop Kammaran wrote:

> > Come on!!!

> http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html

I'm rather sure it's meant as a quite funny reference to

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/d024a2f831f81e2c/465ede5dc776f39d?lnk=st&q=dmr+group%3Acomp.lang.c&rnum=4&hl=en#465ede5dc776f39d

which, in turn, referes to

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/c1bcf3a324a678c9?hl=en#
                             Regards, Jens
-- 
  \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ___      jt@toerring.de
   \__________________________      http://toerring.de

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#11630

On Oct 13, 10:12 am, b...@panix.com (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

Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

Thanks and Goodbye

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#11631

On 10/13/2011 9:55 AM, lovecreatesbeauty wrote:
>
> Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

...I didn't know he created lisp.

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#11637

bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) writes:
> > 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.

Pretty much everyone cited as being important in the 
computer business nowadays owes much of that to DMR and
those he worked closely with.

A sad loss now, but summed over 70 years the nett gain 
was immeasurable.

Phil
-- 
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon

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