Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by bootload » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 1:54 AM UTC

    #include  
    main()
    {
        printf("goodbye, world\n");
    }

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by srl » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 1:58 AM UTC

c--; /* to echo a sentiment expressed on g+ */

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by melling » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 1:58 AM UTC

melling wrote: post #16

kiba wrote: post #6

70 years. That's a long time to be alive! He was born in the middle of WW2, lived through the cold war, seen the collapse of the soviet union, etc. Me? I was born around the time the Linux OS hatched and the internet is starting to open up.

70 years isn't long at all. 100 is the new old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian With a bit more research, many people could live to be 90-100.

Sorry, I'm not a 20 something saying wow 70 is a long time, I'm closer to 50 than 40 so I can almost see 70. I was trying to provide some perspective on 70 not being old. It should still be a very productive time in peoples lives, and it's still way too young to die.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by sixtofour » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:06 AM UTC

I still have K&R on my shelf.

Thank you, DMR.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by suivix » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #26

free(DennisRitchie);

next_newborn = calloc(1, sizeof(WORLD_CHANGER_ST));

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by goodnight » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

RIP Dennis. Now that's a guy worth mourning about.

I'll check CNN and the BBC to see their special reports, surely if they had them when some marketing CEO kicked the bucket they'll give at least ten times the amount of coverage to a man who was 100 times his better!

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by jburwell » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:08 AM UTC

Two visi0naries lost in one week. Unfortunately, Dennis Ritchie's passing will not get the level of coverage of Steve Jobs, but he deserves it. Without his critical contributions, the UNIX core of Steve Jobs' great products could not exist ...

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by barrkel » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:08 AM UTC

smoyer wrote: post #22

rkalla wrote: post #19

I wonder how many people here got to know Ritchie through "The C Programming Language", I am sure half of us have it on our shelves. It is amazing how many lives a single person can touch directly and indirectly. I hope Ritchie passed away knowing the unforgettable contribution he made to the world as we all move forward on a platform he set down for us more than 30 years ago. What an awesome legacy to leave behind.…

I'm old enough that K&R was the bible when I started with Borland's Turbo C 1.0. Another sad day for computer science.

alnayyir, you've been hellbanned. In case you didn't know.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by InclinedPlane » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:09 AM UTC

If you have used technology of any sort over the last few decades there's a pretty decent chance that you've used technology that Steve Jobs had a significant impact on.

But the chances are 100.00% that you've used technology Dennis Ritchie has had a deeply profound impact on.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by robert_nsu » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:15 AM UTC

RIP Dennis Ritchie. I can't honestly say that I've spent an entire day at work over the last five years without looking at something that was either created by him or inspired from his work.