Gr.Viper Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 The man behind Unix and C programming language passed away last weekend. Sadly, the world was too preoccupied with the death of a better promoted persona to notice. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/operating-systems/3310655/unix-and-c-creator-dennis-ritchie-dies http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html Quote
UK_Widowmaker Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 RIP...actually, unlike Jobs..he was a quiet hero... Jobs loved himself Quote
MigBuster Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Aw no - most of todays computing is built on Unix and C (and its descendents C++/c#/Java) Linux came out of Unix(Minix) MAC OSX is based on BSD Unix - and so are the iPhone iPad Operating Systems C++ - well most of Windows is built with that - and Linux/Unix on C and C++ - and so's Falcon 4 from what Ive read :) Respect to a great pioneer and true Genius Quote
Slartibartfast Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 I remember doing C programming back in the 1980's... and as has been said as far as IT goes he was the quiet man in IT, he just got on with it whereas Jobs... Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 The Development of the C Language, by Dennis Ritchie, 1993 ~> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html Good read, but it makes my head hurt bringing back repressed memories. Quote
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