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Dennis Ritchie, whose death after a long illness was reported on Wednesday and confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs, similarly embodied a unique yet admirable approach to systems design: a man with a lifelong focus on making software that satisfied the intellect while freeing programmers to create their dreams.
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies
Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:17 AM EDT
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RIP Dennis, all us developers owe you a huge thank you.
I think this quote from http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/rip-dmr.html says it all:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("goodbye, dad\n");
return 0;
}
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#1 - Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:21 AM EDTThanks Dennis RIP...
Unfortunately hardly anyone uses C anymore.
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