Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dead at 70

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220823/Dennis_Ritchie_father_of_Unix_and_C_programming_language_dead_at_70" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20119811-92/dennis-ritchie-father-of-c-programming-language-dies/?tag=mncol" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There was a thread on Tivocommunity going on around this since yesterday but I was hesitant to post this until reputable media sources posted it. It's odd that it took so long.

It's confirmed by a message from Bell Labs' president: http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/blogs/corporate/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-message-from-jeong-kim/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

C and Unix were the only programming tools I ever really mastered. This was in the days before Perl and Python. If I ran out of Unix utilities, I wrote my own in C and added them to the pipeline. Simple, elegant.

Yep, just pipe 'em together. Used to do a lot of that at The Phone Company. Unix
rocks.

Now using a very nice GUI on top of Unix.

highcountryrider said:

Yep, just pipe 'em together. Used to do a lot of that at The Phone Company. Unix
rocks.

Now using a very nice GUI on top of Unix.

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Oh no, you worked for "TPC"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Gw9IUmjwM&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e3dTOJi0o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FYI, I still have Dennis Ritchies book on C

mitch672 said:

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Oh no, you worked for "TPC"

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I still have the 310 jack in the heel of my right foot! :lol:

mitch672 said:

FYI, I still have Dennis Ritchies book on C

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Me 2!

michealkaan said:

Yep, just pipe 'em together. Used to do a lot of that at The Phone Company. Unix
rocks. C and Unix were the only programming tools I ever really mastered. This was in the days before Perl and Python. If I ran out of Unix utilities, I wrote my own in C and added them to the pipeline. Simple, elegant.

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Cool stuff pipes and useful utilities... Sad news, losing Dennis Ritchie.

Wikipedia: The C Programming Language
Bell Labs: The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language is one of my technical bibles!

Let's see what happens when we pipe LEAFs together?

LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF :lol:

highcountryrider said:

LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF :lol:

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Hmmm...

<Sun | PV | Inverter | Grid | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | Zero Emissions
<Sun | PV | Inverter | Grid | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | > /dev/null (The Unix way of saying Zero Emissions )
<Sun | PV | Inverter | Grid | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | LEAF | >/dev/FUN

Rather sad to see Ritchie go. Infact I'd say Ritchie has had more influence on tech than Jobs ...

C was the only language I really learnt properly.

evnow said:

C was the only language I really learnt properly.

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I do other languages, but would have to say that C is my native tongue! I find its elegance and simplicity very attractive. Of course, it's a matter of what you make of it.

I used to do C & lots of little shell scripts.

Then came the object oriented stuff and I got lost. :?