Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(  (Read 4734 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline commodorejohn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2010
  • Posts: 3165
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.commodorejohn.com
Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« on: October 13, 2011, 04:53:19 PM »
*tips hat*

Now I'm gonna have to spend the day coding in memoriam...
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup
 

Offline commodorejohn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2010
  • Posts: 3165
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.commodorejohn.com
Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 09:49:10 PM »
Quote from: Dwyloc;663455
As a large amount of MacOS classic will have been written in C as well with out Dennis Ritchie MacOS classic may also have failed to come to pass :-)
Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup
 

Offline commodorejohn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2010
  • Posts: 3165
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.commodorejohn.com
Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 11:23:32 PM »
Quote from: Dwyloc;663462
lol, but did they use emacs or vi to write the code as both were written in C if I remember correctly :)
According to Andy Hertzfeld's account they used Lisas for development work, and IIRC the Lisa software was also all Pascal or assembler, so it's possible C didn't enter the equation (on the OS-dev side of things) until much later.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup