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Offline SwampChicken

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« Posted 2011-10-13 06:12:05 »

Sad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

Offline ra4king

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« Reply #1 - Posted 2011-10-13 11:31:10 »

Truthfully, I clicked on this topic because I did not know who Dennis Ritchie is. Now that I know, I'm ashamed to have not known Sad

RIP Cry

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« Reply #2 - Posted 2011-10-13 11:49:53 »

It's strange.  When I started that noteworthy people thread my first thought was of Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson, but I sorta wanted to stick to individual contributions..even though very few are truly individual efforts.  I'm certainly going to toast Ritchie this evening.
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« Reply #3 - Posted 2011-10-13 14:08:14 »

Ah, now that really is a great loss to computer science.

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« Reply #4 - Posted 2011-10-13 14:57:52 »

Ah, now that really is a great loss to computer science.

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« Reply #5 - Posted 2011-10-13 17:20:34 »

Ah, now that really is a great loss to computer science.

Cas Smiley

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Offline Eli Delventhal
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« Reply #6 - Posted 2011-10-13 17:39:44 »

That's a bummer.

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Offline h3ckboy
« Reply #7 - Posted 2011-10-13 17:56:10 »

wow, apparently I was not paying attention when I did my Computer programming reading.... Cuase I even took notes that C was made by Dennis ritchie, and yet I had no idea who he was when I saw this.
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« Reply #8 - Posted 2011-10-14 17:11:35 »

He died a few days ago. Great guy. I assume even Java would not exist without him. In Belgium, some media spoke about his death but not really in France.

Offline Cero
« Reply #9 - Posted 2011-10-14 18:06:46 »

I died a few days ago.

You did ?

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« Reply #10 - Posted 2011-10-14 23:02:06 »

I died a few days ago. Great guy. I assume even Java would not exist without him. In Belgium, some media spoke about his death but not really in France.
LOL!

Offline Cero
« Reply #11 - Posted 2011-10-14 23:45:44 »

I guess we are talking to "Zombie Julien" now

Offline ReBirth
« Reply #12 - Posted 2011-10-15 13:19:42 »

he has some credits left

Offline h3ckboy
« Reply #13 - Posted 2011-10-15 13:51:48 »

I died a few days ago. Great guy. I assume even Java would not exist without him. In Belgium, some media spoke about his death but not really in France.
hmm, I must have missed that, but that makes sense sinse I don't watch local belgian tv ever Tongue
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« Reply #14 - Posted 2011-10-17 13:52:34 »

Oops sorry. I'm alive, it was a spelling mistake or maybe a Freudian slip.

Offline h3ckboy
« Reply #15 - Posted 2011-10-17 17:36:59 »

this was mentioned a couple of days ago on some podcast someone who was giving a ride to me was listening to.

Basically the guys said that dennis made computers for real people who did real work. And Jobs made computers for hippies.
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« Reply #16 - Posted 2011-10-17 21:06:19 »

Quote
dennis made computers for real people who did real work. And Jobs made computers for hippies.
LOL!! That's funny, but true.
Offline Roquen

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« Reply #17 - Posted 2011-10-18 12:40:16 »

Apple II & NeXT.
Offline Roquen

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« Reply #18 - Posted 2011-10-18 12:44:23 »

Oh yeah, and DTP & Art for many many years was pretty much mac.  Stuff like that makes great sound bites, but aren't very realistic.
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« Reply #19 - Posted 2012-08-23 15:46:29 »

I just now found out that John McCarthy died, just a few days after Ritchie....go figure.
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« Reply #20 - Posted 2012-08-23 17:48:22 »

This was my eulogy for McCarthy:

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« Reply #21 - Posted 2012-08-24 00:30:29 »

In Belgium, some media spoke about his death but not really in France.

They covered it extensively in the US. I had no idea he was solely responsible for innoventing the C programming language, too. His trademark turtleneck and jeans will be missed.
Offline Roquen

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« Reply #22 - Posted 2012-10-26 14:07:31 »

I think there's a conspiracy.  George Marsaglia's gone too.  Not as shocking as not knowing about McCarthy, but still.
Offline sproingie
« Reply #23 - Posted 2012-10-26 17:53:00 »

Well, at least he wasn't killed by a random accident.  He had a long life and died hard Grin

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« Reply #24 - Posted 2012-10-26 18:33:26 »

Some might say he talked too much about the period of his Mother.
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« Reply #25 - Posted 2012-10-26 21:18:09 »

Well, at least he wasn't killed by a random accident.  He had a long life and died hard Grin
Can you prove it wasn't random?  Roll Eyes

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