Another legend dies...

[djk]

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/de...-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html

RIP.

 

[sleazure]

hmfs!

 

[Samurai Joey]

I still remember studying C using the textbook authored by Kernighan and Richie.

My condolences to Dennis Ritchie's family. May he RIP.

 

[Cobster]

The man who played a vital role in Unix (Linux & Apple), as well as networking computers.
RIP.

 

[Powershot]

I had one of his books too.. did many years of C programming in Unix and FreeBSD during university and early in my career.

 

[diablo77]

Not taking anything away from Steve jobs, but the distribution of publicity on their respective deaths seems somewhat unbalanced.

 

[Cobster]

Simple, because of marketing.

If it weren't for Ritchie, Jobs wouldn't have the OS as he does now.
He quoted Picasso afterall, "good artists copy, great artists steal".

 

[Powershot]

Errr one died a senior citizen that made a programming language that your average joe knows little to nothing about and contributed to the development of a low level operating system, not the GUI people see.. The other died young and created products in the public eye people can touch, I think it's obvious to anybody who's not a simpleton that one would be more famous and discussed than the other and it's not because of marketing. That doesn't take away from any of Ritchie's accomplishments, he basically created the basis for my career and millions of others.

 

[girorok66]

Rip...

 

[trod]

R.i.p.

 

[Scooter Brown]

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie made it all possible. Corporations led by lawyers and bean counters f*cked up as usual. It took Steve Jobs to make money out of it.

Kerninghan's and Ritchie's book is on my shelf.

 

[danibbler]

I believe that UNIX was and is still quite successful. It was just never really quite in the consumer realm until OS X.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie made it all possible. Corporations led by lawyers and bean counters f*cked up as usual. It took Steve Jobs to make money out of it.

Kerninghan's and Ritchie's book is on my shelf.

 

[sleazure]

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie made it all possible. Corporations led by lawyers and bean counters f*cked up as usual. It took Steve Jobs to make money out of it.

Kerninghan's and Ritchie's book is on my shelf.

Not to hijack the thread, but don't forget about Bill Joy. He picked up the ball and ran with it. Seminal (can we say seminal here?) in both BSD and Solaris.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Have a cousin a computer engineer, who got in on the ground floor with Xerox over 40 yrs ago who still uses OpenSolaris as his main OS and believes it's the best. He says an an open source computer operating system is the only way to go....