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Offline nicholasTopic starter

Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« on: October 13, 2011, 01:44:05 PM »
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!

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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 01:49:27 PM »
True that.

Thanks for C and THE book on it, Dennis! :)
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 01:50:23 PM »
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2011, 01:52:00 PM »
Quote from: Wikipedia
Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.


Wow, I wonder if I ever ran into him in the hall back in 2000-2001.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2011, 01:52:49 PM »
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?
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2011, 02:03:55 PM »
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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!
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2011, 02:24:47 PM »
Goodbye and thank you Dennis. :_(
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2011, 03:39:52 PM »
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.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2011, 04:28:18 PM »
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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?
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2011, 04:53:19 PM »
*tips hat*

Now I'm gonna have to spend the day coding in memoriam...
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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2011, 05:07:23 PM »
Rip :(
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2011, 07:15:48 PM »
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No Dennis, no OSX. I wonder what Apple might have used had UNIX not been invented?
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 :-/
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2011, 07:55:14 PM »
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If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/


Nah. We just would have had to wait for CAOS.

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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2011, 08:03:01 PM »
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Nah. We just would have had to wait for CAOS.

http://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html
If you read, CAOS simply wasn't viable... It wouldn't have met its delivery targets and possibly would have pushed the project too late to compete with Atari and Apple
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2011, 09:31:45 PM »
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Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...


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 :-)
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