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Dennis Ritchie RIP

  • 13-10-2011 09:45AM
    #1
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language, has died. He's not as well known as Steve Jobs, but - in my view - contributed a great deal more to the world of information technology. I have fond memories of learning C by reading through his and Brian Kernighan's book way back in the late 1980s.

    RIP.


Comments

  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    RIP

    I still have a copy of "The C Programming Language" sitting on my bookshelf. I even had the 'pleasure' of working with 'B', it's predecessor (I kid you not!)


  • #3
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    RIP Dennis Ritchie.

    The IT world would have been a very different place today if it was not for C.


  • #4
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,261 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    RIP. Don't forget he helped develop Unix as well. Like OB said, not as well known as Jobs but still the work he did shaped the technology world far more than that of the household names.


  • #5
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo 


    /* RIP */

#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
    printf("Thanks Dennis");


}


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