Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died • Hacker News Board

CamperBob wrote: post #64

bootload wrote: post #31

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

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

It's true, he preferred the brackets formatted this way.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by zach » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:28 AM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #38

smoyer wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Although this makes his comments only viewable by comment-necrophiliacs like us and are unchallengeable by reply. It's like alnayyir is a zombie gadfly. Creepy.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by HardyLeung » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:38 AM UTC

keidian wrote: post #62

xxpor wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Including all of the tech that Steve Jobs had a significant impact on.

Exactly. When I first found out about dmr, I really really hoped the stories will flood in here after the massive Steve Jobs amount. Not to take anything away from Steve, but dmr is far more important in my opinion, and I'm sure many other geeks would agree. I'm glad he isn't just quietly being forgotten like I feared he would.

Let's not compare the two legends. They made their own marks in vastly different ways. Both magnificent. I love them both. RIP.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by fjarlq » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:47 AM UTC

fjarlq wrote: post #72

:( Thank you, Dennis. dmr posted to Usenet quite often over the years: http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=research!dmr http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@research.UU... http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@alice.UUCP http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@research.at... http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@bell-labs.c...

For example, explaining the history of operator precedence in C:

http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.c/msg/3651ddf298937d...

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by bootload » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:47 AM UTC

pjscott wrote: post #56

bootload wrote: post #31

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

Considering the tragic nature of the situation, the exit status should be nonzero. #include int main(void) { printf("goodbye, world\n"); return 1; }

"... the exit status should be nonzero. .."

true but it's from P7, "C progamming language", pure K&R.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by phillco » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:48 AM UTC

pjscott wrote: post #56

bootload wrote: post #31

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

Considering the tragic nature of the situation, the exit status should be nonzero. #include int main(void) { printf("goodbye, world\n"); return 1; }

What if he died peacefully?

    return 0;

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by resnamen » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 4:03 AM UTC

free(dmr);

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by unfletch » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 4:10 AM UTC

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