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Jaguu

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Dennis Ritchie - the giant that passed away unnoticed!
« on: November 06, 2011, 07:44:55 am »
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

Microsoft should bow to him,
Apple should bow to him,
JRiver should bow to him,
every software developing company should bow to him...

My first computer course in computer programming in distant 1982 was "The Programming Language C". Although I never became a real programmer as I shifted towards system admin and script programming, I well remember all those struggles understanding the awkward concept of pointers...
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John Gateley

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Re: Dennis Ritchie - the giant that passed away unnoticed!
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2011, 09:07:00 pm »
Not unnoticed by everyone.

John McCarthy, father of Lisp and coiner of the term Artificial Intelligence, also died recently.

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Re: Dennis Ritchie - the giant that passed away unnoticed!
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2011, 09:56:01 am »
Ritchie was truly a trailblazer and I'd guess will be remembered as such, at least in Computer Science circles..
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