Dennis Ritchie - RIP

HarryN · Oct 19, 2011

Dennis Ritchie

A long time pioneer into what has made modern computing possible, with contributions to:
- C
- Unix
- Software portability
- etc.

All of them involved in the modern internet, and at least a portion of most computer software today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

egrep · Oct 19, 2011

Hear Hear, I owe much in my life to dmr. His passing puts an end to his suffering and may he rest in peace.

/* Goodbye World program */

#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Goodbye World");

}

Sub_Umbra · Oct 20, 2011

One of my heroes.

dmkatz76 · Oct 20, 2011

Lots of Steve Jobs obits, little for DMR. Who truly contributed more?

bbb74 · Oct 20, 2011

dmkatz76 said:
Lots of Steve Jobs obits, little for DMR. Who truly contributed more?

+1

vali · Oct 21, 2011

I agree. The computer science world would be WAY different without D. Ritchie's contributions.

PhotonWrangler · Oct 21, 2011

RIP sir, one of the real pioneers in computing. Perhaps he is discussing 'cloud' computing with Steve Jobs now...

flashflood · Oct 22, 2011

egrep said:
Hear Hear, I owe much in my life to dmr. His passing puts an end to his suffering and may he rest in peace.

/* Goodbye World program */

#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Goodbye World");

}

Missing newline in the printf.

No return statement, resulting in undefined exit status for the process.

:tsk:

My dog-eared copy of K&R -- operator precedence table on page 53! -- just became even more precious.

Thank you, and RIP.

Dennis Ritchie - RIP

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