The world says goodbye to Dennis Ritchie

[GWarner]

A sad week for the computing world on the whole, I think. The computing world truly is poorer for having lost him. Thank you for a wonderful operating system, sir. There would be none of what we have today without you.

For those unfamiliar, he developed the C programming language and co developed Unix, which are both the foundations for modern Windows, mac OS and iOS.

R.I.P. Mr. Ritchie

[eesau]

Sad news!

[Kuron]

I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis many years ago.

[djes]

I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis many years ago.

Oh yes ? Would you tell us a bit more ?

[luis]

Yup, sad indeed. Slowly all the building bricks of our current era are disappearing, and almost all of them virtually unnoticed.

[Kuron]

Oh yes ? Would you tell us a bit more ?

It was back in the mid 90s. There was a conference downtown and he was one of the speakers. At the luncheon afterwards, you got to eat, meet the speakers and network.

[djes]

Oh yes ? Would you tell us a bit more ?

It was back in the mid 90s. There was a conference downtown and he was one of the speakers. At the luncheon afterwards, you got to eat, meet the speakers and network.

It seems not really exciting, but I wish I could have been there!

[MachineCode]

It saddens me to think that the kids and teens of today will hold high regard for people like Mark Zuckerberg, instead of the true computing pioneers like Dennis Ritchie. Such a shame.