Dennis Ritchie Has Died
Bradley K. Sherman
> 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
Sunner Sun
RIP dmr
Kleuskes & Moos
#include <stdio.h>
int
main(void)
{
printf("Thanks! (requiescat in pace)\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
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Alberto
Ben Bacarisse
> 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.
sbalneav
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.
Nobody
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("goodbye, world\n");
}
Kleuskes & Moos
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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tea strainer
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.
Kenny McCormack
Well done! Applause, applause.
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lovecreatesbeauty
Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.
Thanks and Goodbye
Gary
>
> Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.
...I didn't know he created lisp.
Phil Carmody
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
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Mike Manilone
Jorgen Grahn
> 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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sbalneav
> 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
Anoop Kammaran
Come on!!! If it wasn't for him, this group wouldn't even exist...
Noob
> Come on!!!
superpollo
sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?
not a native speaker...
bye
Joe Pfeiffer
> 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...
Joe Pfeiffer
"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.
superpollo
copy that
Jens Thoms Toerring
> > Come on!!!
> http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html
I'm rather sure it's meant as a quite funny reference to
which, in turn, referes to
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/c1bcf3a324a678c9?hl=en#
Regards, Jens
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Kenneth Brody
Well, "mainstream" media is finally picking up the story.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/
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> "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.
[...]
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Kenneth Brody
army1987
>> 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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Thomas David Rivers
Very nice article indeed...
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spinoza1111
wrote:
> In article <j773q8$hs...@speranza.aioe.org>,
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.
spinoza1111
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
io_x
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On Oct 13, 1:51 pm, Kleuskes & Moos <kleu...@somewhere.else.net>
wrote:
rip
Bradley K. Sherman
|
| 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
luser- -droog
<an eloquent testimonial of the anguish shared among even trolls>
io_x
"Bradley K. Sherman" <b...@panix.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:j7hdaa$ba7$2...@reader1.panix.com...
> |
> | I was warmly surprised to see how many people responded to
> | my Google+ post about Dennis Ritchie's untimely passing.
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
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