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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Jim Bauwens on October 13, 2011, 03:50:39 am

Title: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Jim Bauwens on October 13, 2011, 03:50:39 am

From wikipedia:

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Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages. Unix has also been influential, establishing concepts and principles that are now well-established precepts of computing.

He died a few days ago, at age 70. We truly have lost a great man :(

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: aeTIos on October 13, 2011, 04:45:05 am

wow, how should we call this time? 'dead of the greats' or so?

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 13, 2011, 10:32:55 am

Sad day :( Two days after Steve Jobs's death, Dennis Ritchie follows.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Juju on October 13, 2011, 01:38:40 pm

Two influential persons in the domain of computering died, rest in peace Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs. The former gave the bases of modern computing with C and UNIX while the latter also did it with Apple computers.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 13, 2011, 01:43:24 pm

Sadly I did not know much about him, since I never got into Unix much and I'm not very tech-savy, but I,m sad to hear :(

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Juju on October 13, 2011, 03:41:24 pm

Come to think, Dennis Ritchie influenced directly or indirectly pretty much every well-known programming languages and every operating system, as a lot of programming languages, if not all, has been influenced by C and pretty much every main operating system on the market are either Windows (whose NT branch has some UNIX-influenced precepts implemented) or UNIX-like, if not a handful of them has been written in C/C++.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: AngelFish on October 13, 2011, 03:43:47 pm

Quote from: Juju on October 13, 2011, 03:41:24 pm

Come to think, Dennis Ritchie influenced directly or indirectly pretty much every well-known programming languages...

Except BASIC, which Microsoft then corrupted with C-like concepts in Visual BASIC.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 29, 2011, 02:58:57 pm

John McCarthy, creator of Lisp (http://xach.livejournal.com/296022.html) :(

Though I never used Lisp, this month sucks.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: AngelFish on October 29, 2011, 06:34:09 pm

Wow, Gates, and Wozniak better start acting very carefully...

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Keoni29 on October 29, 2011, 06:39:48 pm

Quote from: Qwerty.55 on October 29, 2011, 06:34:09 pm

Wow, Gates, and Wozniak better start acting very carefully...

;D
Newton and Einstein died too! This ain't looking good for Hawking thats for sure

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: yunhua98 on October 29, 2011, 08:20:39 pm

Quote from: Keoni29 on October 29, 2011, 06:39:48 pm

Newton and Einstein died too! This ain't looking good for Hawking thats for sure

Things never really looked good for Stephen Hawking.  :P

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 29, 2011, 08:34:21 pm

That's true D:

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and developer of UNIX dead
Post by: parserp on October 29, 2011, 09:58:51 pm

Dang, lots of visionary people are dying it seems :'(