Dear Miguel, Your list of two astounding achievements by Ritchie reminds me of an old satire of mutual assessment within academia, in cartoon form, showing a group of cavemen talking intensely and secretively to each other about another one who is standing anxiously in the distance. One of those in the group is saying: "OK, so he discovered fire and invented the wheel - but what has he done since?".
With best wishes, Gerard. -- On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: > Hi community, > > I have been waiting for someone more knowledgeable to write about the > passing away of Dennis Ritchie (8 October) especially after the recent > obituaries posted in the list. I confess I know little about him, except: > > 1/ He created the C language ( and together with Brian Kernighan wrote > an extremely useful book about it ) > 2/ He and Ken Thompson were key in the development of something called > UNIX... > > Undoubtedly, he made an impact in our field. > > > -- > Miguel > > Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (UMR6098) > CNRS, Universités d'Aix-Marseille I & II > Case 932, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France > Tel: +33(0) 491 82 55 93 > Fax: +33(0) 491 26 67 20 > mailto:miguel.ortiz-lombar...@afmb.univ-mrs.fr > http://www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr/Miguel-Ortiz-Lombardia -- =============================================================== * * * Gerard Bricogne g...@globalphasing.com * * * * Global Phasing Ltd. * * Sheraton House, Castle Park Tel: +44-(0)1223-353033 * * Cambridge CB3 0AX, UK Fax: +44-(0)1223-366889 * * * ===============================================================