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> On 13-10-11 09:45, 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.
>
> Agreed again ;-)
>
> Here is my Google+ "article"
>
> [quote]
>
> I totally missed the sad news that Dennis Ritchie diseased at the age of 70.
>
> Being the GOD of the C Programming language and co-author of Unix. Mr.
> Ritchie is of course one of my heroes.
>
> Thank you for your great contributions Dennis R.I.P.
>
> [/quote]
>
> Some of the news sites covered it today, those who didn't I am "tipping"
> ATM.
>
> Oh, and thanks for the banner Roy!
Without Dennis, there would be no Linux, BSD, Perl, or OS X.
Apple would possibly be bankrupt.
The whole world is powered by C and UNIX/Linux. Dennis was a
low-profile, humble giant.
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