Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(

[nicholas]

Surely to God we belong and to Him shall we return.

Creator of the two greatest things in computer science and one of my personal heroes passed away this weekend.

He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace great man!

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en

[nicholas]

Awww... That's sad news, R.I.P. Dennis. When I was in university they constantly referred to Kernighan & Richie's C book, so much so it became known to us as the K&R bible. Where would we be without C and UNIX?

Locked into a CPM derived world probably. Yuk!

[nicholas]

The world lost a couple great people who advanced technology dramatically and both in different ways. My one consolation is that Richie live a full life and achieved all that he might in the time he had.

No Dennis, no OSX. I wonder what Apple might have used had UNIX not been invented?

[nicholas]

Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...

If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/

TRIPOS was originally developed for the PDP-11, but that's about the only thing it has in common with UNIX.

[nicholas]

Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.

Oh I have sweet memories of writing everything in Turbo Pascal then re-writing it again in TASM syntax assembly to teach myself the latter.