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| 13 Oct 2011 | #1 |
| | Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies Didnt see this listed anywhere yet, just ran across this during lunch: One of the founding fathers of IT as it stands. the creator of C and co-creator of Unix has passed on. Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies - ZDNet Quote: Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely regarded as a key moment in modern computing, the contemporaneous birth of the C programming language is less well known. Yet the creation of C has as much claim, if not more, to be the true seminal moment of IT as we know it; it sits at the heart of programming — and in the hearts of programmers — as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability |
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| 15 Oct 2011 | #2 |
| | I am surprised no one else posted on this... |
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| 15 Oct 2011 | #3 |
| | Where did you find this information. |
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| 15 Oct 2011 | #4 |
| | um... online  |
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| 18 Oct 2011 | #5 |
| Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Build 7600 / Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 Mexico | Wow... many worthy and great people is leaveing this world this year... He was a great step in programing (I sometimes use C just to learn as a hobby). RIP Dennis  |
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| 18 Oct 2011 | #6 |
| | If you don't get any video on TV people don't notice. People who never did any programming know there was a guy named Steve Jobs. I remember some time back John Belushi and Ayn Rand died on the same day. Guess who got all the news coverage?  |
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| 18 Oct 2011 | #7 |
| | I've read about this a few days ago, and amazingly, not a single newspaper cared. Everything was about Steve Jobs, so sad. |
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| 18 Oct 2011 | #8 |
| | I believe Dennis Ritchie was a much more important person than Steve Jobs will ever be. Truly sad to lose such a prominent figure, it's even sadder that the media and the most people wouldn't care if you told them just how important C and UNIX are/were. Heck, I'd be surprised if Apple was around today as it were if it weren't for C and UNIX. But that is just what I believe. |
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