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____/ Marti Van Lin on Thursday 13 Oct 2011 11:02 : \____
> On 13-10-11 11:27, SomeBloke wrote:
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>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:45:13 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> ____/ Marti Van Lin on Thursday 13 Oct 2011 08:08 : \____
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>>>> On 13-10-11 09:02, Mark S Bilk wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> With Ken Thompson a winner of the Turing Prize. Truly a giant amongst
>> giants.
>
> Indeed, this duo are the shoulders of the giants on which Torvald build
> his work.
>
> Those who don't know Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie will irrevocable
> fail the Turingtest :-p
Linux (kernel) is written in C, as well as various BSD kernels. Most
GNU and BSD utilities are written in C.
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