A Sad day Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C programming language, has died.

[walker 0]

Hi all

A Sad Day, friend just told me Dennis Ritchie has died.

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-inventor-of-the-c-programming-language-has-died/

Dennis was also along with Kenneth Thompson one of the co creators of the Unix the basis of linux and Android.

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/3184-dennis-ritchie-co-creator-of-unix-and-c-has-died.html

Rest in Peace Dennis, you quietly made the world a better place.

Kind Regards walker

Edited October 13, 2011 by walker
Added unix co creator status.

[walker 0]

Hi all

Obituary in PC Pro.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-rip/

Without him ArmA, VBS and BIS's OFP would never have existed. Nor would most of the other games you play or indeed most of the internet.

Kind Regards walker

Edited October 13, 2011 by walker

[Tankbuster 1747]

you quietly made the world a better place.

Hi walker,

Sound advice, sadly ignored.

Kind regards,

Tankbuster

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[-martin- 10]

Rest in peace and thank you for everything you've done to make people’s lives easier and for letting us use computers the way we do today.

Its people like him that are the true kings of peace. It’s a shame that not many news networks talk about this, I didn't see anything on the BBC today so I didn't even know until I came to the BIF, but when someone has a sex scandal the news are full of it.

[PELHAM 10]

A true genius! RIP. I first encountered Linux 5 years ago and it revolutionised my computer experience. It would not exist without this guy.

You will not see his death reported on the BBC, they have a bias for anything Apple and don't like reporting anything about science / technology.

[walker 0]

A true genius! RIP. I first encountered Linux 5 years ago and it revolutionised my computer experience. It would not exist without this guy.

You will not see his death reported on the BBC, they have a bias for anything Apple and don't like reporting anything about science / technology.

This^^

[Serclaes 0]

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ :(

Made my first steps in a real language with his and Kernighan's Programming in C book. Seems like ages ago :(

[sanctuary 19]

Sad news,

It's impressive how C could have an impact on so many hours of my life, not me coding as i'm just unable to, but me using something that contained C or derivative from it, or was made possible only because C had been invented before.

May he rests in peace in a better world.

[walker 0]

Hi all

While the Media remember Steve Jobs, the programmers, systems analysts and developers who made the world we live in now remember Dennis Ritchie:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/10/12/DMR

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies-40094176/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20119811-92/dennis-ritchie-father-of-c-programming-language-dies/

https://twitter.com/#!/grimmelm/status/124309350855622656

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/Dennis-Ritchie-Creator-of-C-Programming-Language-Passed-Away?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/father-of-c-and-unix-dennis-ritchie-passes-away-at-age-70/

http://www.develop-online.net/news/38867/Maverick-creator-of-C-programming-language-dies

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101311-ritchie-251936.html?hpg1=bn

Simple and understated like the man himself, Dennis Ritchie's home page at Bell Labs:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/

Kind Regards walker

Edited October 13, 2011 by walker

[Tonci87 163]

Sad news....

[jerryhopper 286]

its a bigger loss than Steve J. If it wasnt for Dennis Ritchie, we werent are here on these forums, with this game.

Unfortunatly, this man is greatly ignored by the media.

Dennis Ritchie, Rest in peace.

C++u when i get there.

[loyalguard 15]

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{
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[mrcash2009 0]

its a bigger loss than Steve J. If it wasnt for Dennis Ritchie, we werent are here on these forums, with this game.

Unfortunatly, this man is greatly ignored by the media.

Dennis Ritchie, Rest in peace.

C++u when i get there.

I agree, standing on the shoulders of giants does come into this in a big way.

[Tankbuster 1747]

You will not see his death reported on the BBC, they have a bias for anything Apple and don't like reporting anything about science / technology.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391

[mrcash2009 0]

Those paying respects said he was a "titan" of the industry whose influence was largely unknown.

Always the way, some people just do what they do and get on with it.