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On Oct 13, 10:12*am, b...@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
> > Sad news. *Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
> > died at his home this weekend after a long illness. *Ritchie
> > created the C programming language and was a key contributor
> > to Unix. *In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
> > time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
> > systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX. *He was
> > elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
>
> * * --bks

Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

Thanks and Goodbye

On 10/13/2011 9:55 AM, lovecreatesbeauty wrote:
>
> Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

....I didn't know he created lisp.

lovecreatesbeauty <> writes:
>Dennis Ritchie created the best programming language.

»=head2 What language is Parrot written in?

C.

=head2 For the love of God, man, why?!?!?!?

Because it's the best we've got.«

http://www.davidcole.net/msie/notes/...4/docs/faq.pod

»Here's the thing: C is everywhere. Recently Tim Bray made
basically the same point; all the major operating systems,
all the high-level language runtimes, all the databases,
and all major productivity applications are written in C.«

http://girtby.net/archives/2008/08/23/in-defence-of-c/

»According to the TIOBE index, the C programming
language is the most popular language in April 2010.«

http://www.geeks3d.com/20100413/tiob...er-1-position/

(Bradley K. Sherman) writes:
> > Sad news. Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie
> > died at his home this weekend after a long illness. Ritchie
> > created the C programming language and was a key contributor
> > to Unix. In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long
> > time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating
> > systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX. He was
> > elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Pretty much everyone cited as being important in the
computer business nowadays owes much of that to DMR and
those he worked closely with.

A sad loss now, but summed over 70 years the nett gain
was immeasurable.

Phil
--
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon

Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.

disagree.

On 2011-10-14 15:40, Weifu wrote:
> C is not used so much now

On Fri, 2011-10-14, Weifu wrote:
> Sad. C is not used so much now,

It is one of the most used languages. I work with it all day, and have
done so for fifteen years. And when I don't, I work with C++, which
wouldn't have been viable without C.

> Thanks DMR. RIP.

Yes, thanks.

/Jorgen

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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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On 11-10-14 02:40 AM, Weifu wrote:
> Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.

It's the second most popular language out there:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/conte...pci/index.html

On Oct 13, 9:32*pm, tea strainer <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Bradley K. Sherman writes:
> >> Sad news. *Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie died at
> >> his home this weekend after a long illness. *Ritchie created the C
> >> programming language and was a key contributor to Unix. *In 1983 he
> >> received the Turing Award with his long time colleague Ken Thompson for
> >> the development of operating systems theory and the implementation of
> >> the UNIX. *He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in
> >> 1988.
>
> You're off-topic here. This group discusses the C language. Try asking
> over at soc.history.science where the experts hang out - they'll be able
> to give you a better answer to your question.

Come on!!! If it wasn't for him, this group wouldn't even exist...

Anoop Kammaran wrote:

> Come on!!!

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html