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Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died

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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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      Re: Dennis Ritchie Has Died Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-10-14 13:30 -0400
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