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Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70

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  1. cwerdna

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    Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70 - Computerworld
    Dennis Ritchie, father of C programming language, dies | Business Tech - CNET News

    There was a thread on Tivocommunity going on around this since yesterday but I was hesitant to post this until reputable media sources posted it. It's odd that it took so long.

    It's confirmed by a message from Bell Labs' president: Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011: Message from Jeong Kim | Alcatel-Lucent - The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent.
     
    #1 cwerdna, Oct 13, 2011
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    Sad news. He made amazing contributions.

    Tom
     
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    sad++
     
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    class GoodbyeWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    //Display "Goodbye World!"
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    Tony, you should have stayed with plain C. That way you could avoid all of the darned class structure.

    Tom
     
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    A man whose has given great contribution to the World has passed away. His work does indeed outlive him, and will be cheries by many for decades to come.

    May he rest in peace.


    That's like driving the president from GM away in a hearse from Ford!
     
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    When I got my first computer, a Kaypro 2X, I started writing programs in Basic. It was so frustrating that I started asking folks if I should learn Assembler. I was advised that Assembler is too tedious, and that I should learn C, in which I'd be able to do anything I liked.

    I bought the Kernigan and Ritchie book, and a C compiler for CP/M, and I never looked back. When I bought my PC-AT clone running DOS, I bought a C compiler for it, and after a while installed Microport Unix on a partition.

    I programmed in C under DOS and Unix until I sold my computer to move to Mexico to learn Spanish. By the time I got another computer, it ran Windows, and programming event-driven style was too tedious and I gave it up. I know that somewhere in my Mac (or on the OS X installation disk) there's a C compiler, but what I really want is a compiler that would do all the tedious housework of setting up and managing a window, and allow me to just write program code like I used to do with plain C under DOS.

    I never learned C++.

    Dennis Ritchie will be missed. So sorry to see him go.
     
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    I too had that Kernigan & Ritchie book.

    RIP, Mr. Ritchie.
     
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    XCode should let you write command line apps but you that won't manage a window for you. It'll run just within in a Unix window...
     
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