Members blue2blue Posted October 13, 2011 Members Share Posted October 13, 2011 From ZDNet...______________________________ Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely regarded as a key moment in modern computing, the contemporaneous birth of the C programming language is less well known. Yet the creation of C has as much claim, if not more, to be the true seminal moment of IT as we know it; it sits at the heart of programming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nijyo Posted October 13, 2011 Members Share Posted October 13, 2011 And, unlike Jobs, he will not get a Twitter trend (or really, very much notice at all outside tech circles), because his work didn't get presented using snazzy industrial design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nijyo Posted October 13, 2011 Members Share Posted October 13, 2011 And, unlike Jobs, he will not get a Twitter trend (or really, very much notice at all outside tech circles), because his work didn't get presented using snazzy industrial design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted October 14, 2011 Members Share Posted October 14, 2011 Wow, first Steve Jobs and now Dennis Ritchie! It really is the end of an era. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 14, 2011 Members Share Posted October 14, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2011 From Wired: Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chugheshc2 Posted October 19, 2011 Members Share Posted October 19, 2011 Unix is my bread and butter. I can't imagine how smart the inventors of this stuff must have been. C> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goobers Posted October 23, 2011 Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Unix is my bread and butter. I can't imagine how smart the inventors of this stuff must have been. C> Not that smart. Dennis Ritchie stole everything from Android, which did everything Unix could do, only 2 years before Unix was even invented! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dingoist Posted October 23, 2011 Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 C was revolutionary in its adoption and longevity. It's still a pain in the ass and there are aspects of it the K&R should have been drawn and quartered for because it really isn't a "safe" language. By the same token of it having freedom with memory access and pointers that makes it good for raw h/w access, it also introduces a lot of room for coding errors (though I shouldn't complain, I make my living from people writing buggy and inefficient code). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 23, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Not that smart.Dennis Ritchie stole everything from Android, which did everything Unix could do, only 2 years before Unix was even invented!Pretty sure that's supposed to be a joke. What does it mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 23, 2011 Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Something involving time travel, a priest, a monk, a rabbi, and a chicken apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 23, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Something involving time travel, a priest, a monk, a rabbi, and a chicken apparently.That explains so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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