Author Topic: RIP Dennis Ritchie (Read 1728 times)

sandyman · « **on:** October 13, 2011, 05:49:51 AM »

I saw this on The Register this morning regarding Dennis Ritchie. I realise the the name will mean nothing to most TS folk, but we all owe him a great deal. Without his work, (and that of Ken Thompson) we would have not had Unix. Without Unix we would not have had OS X or iOS.

A great loss to the world of computing.

My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues

Sandy

jcarter · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2011, 07:38:48 AM »

I have heard of our son-in-law talk of this, but I had not known much about Dennis Ritchie.
Glad you posted this info, very very interesting.

gunug · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2011, 08:11:13 AM »

I cut my teeth on K&R ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language ) back in the mid/late 1970's and learned to program in C on DEC PDP-11's! He was a real pioneer and we have much of OS X to thank him for!

kimmer · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2011, 10:19:33 PM »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/...x?newsfeed=true

gunug · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2011, 10:22:31 AM »

Thanks for the link in the Guardian Kimmer; Sandyman already had a topic up for this! I'm glad that I'm not the only one to have done this sort of thing.

kimmer · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2011, 11:17:02 AM »

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Thanks for the link in the Guardian Kimmer; Sandyman already had a topic up for this! I'm glad that I'm not the only one to have done this sort of thing.

Thanks for the heads up. I've merged my thread with Sandyman's thread.

LR827 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2011, 11:24:50 AM »

Interesting that his death so closely followed Steve Jobs'. I wondered if they were close, and the Guardian article only deepens the mystery:

"You could say, therefore, that what Apple really did was to give Unix a pretty face. I've often wondered what Dennis Ritchie would have made of that. Now that he's gone, we'll never know. "

How can we not know what Dennis Ritchie thought of Steve Jobs, Apple, and OSX? Didn't he talk to anyone or write about it?

sandyman · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2011, 10:37:45 AM »

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QUOTE(gunug @ Oct 16 2011, 08:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for the link in the Guardian Kimmer; Sandyman already had a topic up for this! I'm glad that I'm not the only one to have done this sort of thing.

Thanks for the heads up. I've merged my thread with Sandyman's thread.

But luckily Kimmer saw the Grauniad article. It came out after I started the thread

Grauniad

Sandy

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Author Topic: RIP Dennis Ritchie (Read 1728 times)