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Old 13th October 2011
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Dennis Ritchie, best known as the creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system, has died at the age of 70 after a long, unspecified, illness. News of his death came from past collaborator, Rob Pike, in a message on Google+ which read: "I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately. He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost a truly great mind."
Just a few days ago I read parts "The C Programming Language" because I needed to do some C programming after many years of successfully avoiding it.
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RIP Dennis Ritchie.
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This is sad news. :'(
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This is the great loss for Humanity! May your soul rest in peace the Grandmaster of Unix...
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Dennis Ritchie was one of the few people that I "Looked up to" in the computing world, guess now I get to literally look upwards. Learning of his passing this morning made me honestly sad but I'm thankful he's free of any human suffering.


R.I.P.


P.S. I hope it's not disrespectful to wonder how often he got compiler errors.
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An older article in the Economist about the importance of Ritchie : Unix's founding fathers
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Some comments I've seen.
God took Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie so we can soon expect iGod or God++.
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^ Perhaps God can now fix some of those bugs
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That is sad news. I'm thankful to have had the chance to gain at least a small sliver of appreciation of what he did.
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Steve Jobs death was a 'big thing' until Dennis Ritchie died, RIP.
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Steve Jobs death was a 'big thing' until Dennis Ritchie died, RIP.
Every death is equal.

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agree, although their contributions are very different. As I told someone, this is like the guy who invented sliced bread, or butter passing; depending on how much you like assembly over it's precursor.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/19097..._juxtaposition
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