[geeks] RIP, Dennis Ritchie

[Shannon]

On Oct 13, 2011, at 00:48 , Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> This evening Rob Pike announced via his Google+ account that Dennis
> Ritchie passed away this weekend:
>
>  https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en
>
> As often-maligned as his body of work was in programming language circles,
> I'm forever grateful for his contributions to the art.

Aw... he's one of those people you just don't think about all the time, and
never heard much about in recent years.

Funny how maligned his work was... and yet the world depends on it and largely
hasn't offered anything better that doesn't itself depend on it.



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