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I'm pretty sure the passing of this man (and his team) who was<br>
directly involved in starting us all off deserves a moment of
silence<br>
and recognition.<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
<br>
On 10/13/11 10:24, Mike Bean wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Hopefully the group can
forgive me for posting about a <br>
> non-technical subject, but after all the ruckus regarding
Steve <br>
> Job's death, I feel some obligation to point out someone
who I'm <br>
> inclined to think, DESERVES to be recognized<br>
> <br>
> *<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/6yk7y4g">http://tinyurl.com/6yk7y4g</a><br>
> <br>
> *<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70<br>
> <br>
> dennis_ritchie6<br>
> <br>
> After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie <br>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie></a>, father
of Unix and <br>
> an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the
age of <br>
> 70.<br>
> <br>
> Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the
C <br>
> programming language as well as being instrumental in the <br>
> development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent
most of<br>
> his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his joining
in 1967,<br>
> was one of the largest phone providers in the U.S. and had
one of<br>
> the most well-known research labs in operation.<br>
> <br>
> Working alongside Thompson (who had written B) at Bell in
the late<br>
> sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient
operating<br>
> system for the up-and-coming minicomputer, resulting in the
<br>
> release of Unix (running on a DEC PDP-1) in 1971.<br>
> <br>
> Though Unix was cheap and compatible with just about any
machine, <br>
> allowing users to install a variety of software systems,
the OS was<br>
> written in machine (or assembly) language, meaning that it
had a<br>
> small vocabulary and suffered in relation to memory.<br>
> <br>
> By 1973, Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten Unix in C,
developing <br>
> its syntax, functionality, and beyond to give the language
the <br>
> ability to program an operating system. The kernel was
published in<br>
> the same year.<br>
> <br>
> Today, C remains the second most popular programming
language in <br>
> the world (or at least the language in which the second
most lines <br>
> of code have been written), and ushered in C++ and Java;
while the<br>
> pair’s work on Unix led to, among other things, Linus
Torvalds’ <br>
> Linux. The work has without a doubt made Ritchie one of the
most <br>
> important, if not under-recognized, engineers of the modern
era.<br>
> <br>
> His work, specifically in relation to UNIX, led to him
becoming a <br>
> joint recipient of the Turing Award with Ken Thompson in
1983, as <br>
> well as a recipient of the National Medal of Technology in
1998 <br>
> from then-president Bill Clinton.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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These are MY OPINIONS With Dreams To Be A King,<br>
ALONE. I speak for First One Should Be A Man<br>
no-one else. - Manowar<br>
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