Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of C and UNIX died two days ago at the age of 70.
Definitely more important that Steve Jobs. It's a pity he had much less coverage.
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RIP Dennis Ritchie
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by Rail Runner » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:22 pm
A great man indeed. may he rest in peace.
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by Tangent128 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:12 pm
The impact of C is hard to measure... it's so ubiquitous.
Even the "higher-level" languages that people like to use today and mock C from usually have the low-level components written in C.
(Not that C is really that much of a pain- once you really grasp how a computer fundementally works, it's quite natural. And you can get quite high-level if you put a little thought into structuring your program right, which you should be doing anyways.)
Even the "higher-level" languages that people like to use today and mock C from usually have the low-level components written in C.
(Not that C is really that much of a pain- once you really grasp how a computer fundementally works, it's quite natural. And you can get quite high-level if you put a little thought into structuring your program right, which you should be doing anyways.)
(yeah, the cool links in my old sig died. 
A few nerdy newish projects are here. )
A few nerdy newish projects are here. )
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