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Re: Dennis Ritchie deceased at the age of 70

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____/ Marti Van Lin on Thursday 13 Oct 2011 08:08 : \____

> On 13-10-11 09:02, Mark S Bilk wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 12, 11:37 pm, Marti Van Lin<ml2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Apparently Dennis Ritchie diseased on 8 or 9 October 2011
>>>
>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3qtccu7
>>>
>>> We all owe him a minute of silence
>>
>> Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C programming language,
>> and one of the original developers of Unix!
>>
>> A true hero!
> 
> Agreed, that's why I posted it here.

He contributed to society a hundred times and more than Steve Jobs.
But since he wasn't extremely rich, the media will not pay much tribute
to him. 

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