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]

    --bks

RIP dmr

 

[Kleuskes & Moos]

RIP dmr

#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
printf("Thanks! (requiescat in pace)\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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[Alberto]

#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
  printf("Thanks! (requiescat in pace)\n");
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;

}

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rip

 

[Ben Bacarisse]

#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).

 

[sbalneav]

--bks

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]

I think:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Thanks\n");
return (0);
}

is more appropriate (though the change in the string is just personal
taste).

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]

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.

Well done! Applause, applause.

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policies, and that's what caused the economy to tank. Seriously.

(Paul Krugman - Addicted to Bush)

 

[lovecreatesbeauty]

    --bks

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.

 

[Stefan Ram]

Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

»=head2 What language is Parrot written in?

C.

=head2 For the love of God, man, why?!?!?!?

Because it's the best we've got.«

http://www.davidcole.net/msie/notes/ipl/perl/jul13/parrot/parrot-0.0.4/docs/faq.pod

»Here's the thing: C is everywhere. Recently Tim Bray made
basically the same point; all the major operating systems,
all the high-level language runtimes, all the databases,
and all major productivity applications are written in C.«

http://girtby.net/archives/2008/08/23/in-defence-of-c/

»According to the TIOBE index, the C programming
language is the most popular language in April 2010.«

http://www.geeks3d.com/20100413/tiobe-index-c-language-back-at-number-1-position/

 

[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

 

[Weifu]

Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.

 

[Mike Manilone]

disagree.

 

[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

 

[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]

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.

Come on!!! If it wasn't for him, this group wouldn't even exist...

 

[Noob]

Come on!!!

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html