RIP Dennis Ritchie

[invictus43]

Nevermind Steve Jobs...dmr was a true giant in computing.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie/

[S500K]

Dennis Ritchie paved the road for Steve Jobs - both electronic icons.

[zeekat]

He paved the way for so many of us and so very few will understand. Here's a link that say's it just right.

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/rip-dmr.html

[Brian]

[invictus43]

Amen brother..

[moosh009]

RIP and I couldn't agree more

[RockerGuy]

How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless

[soto]

How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless

Only old school C programmers would know of him I suppose... Ritchie, Straustroup and Knuth were my first guides into the magnificent world of code.

[LiNK666]

Definitely did not see this in any paper today... WTF definitely a bigger pioneer than steve jobs. RIP

[Chaos]

he authored several of my University text books. I believe they still use those texts today. At the time, they were called the 'C' bibles.

[invictus43]

he authored several of my University text books. I believe they still use those texts today. At the time, they were called the 'C' bibles.

I have one on my bookshelf here at work..Ritchie and Kernighan..

[invictus43]

How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless

Cuz he wasn't a self-promoting, self-aggrandizing egomaniac. He was an intelligent, scholarly person crafting a language and OS that he loved and that are the foundation of so much of our technology, including Apple OS-X. That doesn't make headlines..he's sort of the anti-Kardashian story..

[mxs]

How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless

Have you ever heard of this dude?

Tim Berners-Lee


I bet you have not .... as most people have not either. But most people know Google, right?

[Chaos]

Have you ever heard of this dude?

Tim Berners-Lee


I bet you have not .... as most people have not either. But most people know Google, right?

He invented the www and http.

[RockerGuy]

Cuz he wasn't a self-promoting, self-aggrandizing egomaniac. He was an intelligent, scholarly person crafting a language and OS that he loved and that are the foundation of so much of our technology, including Apple OS-X. That doesn't make headlines..he's sort of the anti-Kardashian story..

Wow, guys got some cred.
A prof with a few text books under his name?? He must be good at what he does.
He seems like a scientist to me, most scientists are humble in my opinion

Have you ever heard of this dude?

Tim Berners-Lee


I bet you have not .... as most people have not either. But most people know Google, right?

NO, but upon further google, I've read he is the father of the WWW, lol, thats nuts.


I'll say one thing, academia doesn't get the recognition it deserves. How many ppl know just recently a few canadians received the Noble prize?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...79213M20111003