[clue] RIP Dennis Ritchie (TALK)

[David L. Willson]

We'd all have soure ode, instead. 

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----- Original Message -----

> I think it's quite appropriate. Without C, Unix might never have left
> Bell Labs. And without C, what would the software world look like
> now?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:24:29 AM
> Subject: [clue] RIP Dennis Ritchie (TALK)

> Hopefully the group can forgive me for posting about a non-technical
> subject, but after all the ruckus regarding Steve Job's death, I
> feel some obligation to point out someone who I'm inclined to think,
> DESERVES to be recognized

> http://tinyurl.com/6yk7y4g

> Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

> dennis_ritchie6
> After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie , father of Unix and an esteemed
> computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70.
> Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C
> programming language as well as being instrumental in the
> development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of
> his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his joining in 1967,
> was one of the largest phone providers in the U.S. and had one of
> the most well-known research labs in operation.
> Working alongside Thompson (who had written B) at Bell in the late
> sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient operating
> system for the up-and-coming minicomputer, resulting in the release
> of Unix (running on a DEC PDP-1) in 1971.
> Though Unix was cheap and compatible with just about any machine,
> allowing users to install a variety of software systems, the OS was
> written in machine (or assembly) language, meaning that it had a
> small vocabulary and suffered in relation to memory.
> By 1973, Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten Unix in C, developing its
> syntax, functionality, and beyond to give the language the ability
> to program an operating system. The kernel was published in the same
> year.
> Today, C remains the second most popular programming language in the
> world (or at least the language in which the second most lines of
> code have been written), and ushered in C++ and Java; while the
> pair’s work on Unix led to, among other things, Linus Torvalds’
> Linux. The work has without a doubt made Ritchie one of the most
> important, if not under-recognized, engineers of the modern era.
> His work, specifically in relation to UNIX, led to him becoming a
> joint recipient of the Turing Award with Ken Thompson in 1983, as
> well as a recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1998 from
> then-president Bill Clinton.

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