Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

Post by amanicdroid » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 5:28 AM UTC

Post by nitrogen » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 5:57 AM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #38

smoyer wrote: post #22

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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.

Post by ajays » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 6:02 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #95

zmitri wrote: post #73

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

it is a sure-fire way to distinguish between developers who learnt to code a while ago from K&R and those who didn't. I can't stand looking at braces on new lines. It is all from back when a new line was something to be treasured as displays were bad.

Post by sid0 » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 6:11 AM UTC

BasDirks wrote: post #106

sid0 wrote: post #100

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let's not compare both. Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with their belief that SJ was god. Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.

Your comment reeks of fanboyism much more. Don't litter the frontpage posts on our heroes with bitter comments please.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 6:15 AM UTC

phillco wrote: post #78

pjscott wrote: post #56

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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;