It's been a bad month for computing's founding fathers...
R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie. I have your's and Brian Kernighan's first book on 'C' sitting right here on my shelf - and will probably never be far from it.
Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Founder of Unix, Dies
By Ars Technica
October 13, 2011
Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest. Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.
I got my start with technology because of Ritchie’s work on the Unix GENIE time-share system. It made it possible for my high school to time-share the PDP-11 at SUNY-Stony Brook—the same model computer that Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson and their team used to create Unix—and for me to write my first lines of code on a DECwriter II TTY terminal.
But Ritchie’s C is even more important, in many ways, than Unix. It is the fundamental building block upon which much of what we consider to be the modern world was built.
Full story: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/
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