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.

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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
> 
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> CNRS, Universités d'Aix-Marseille I & II
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> Tel: +33(0) 491 82 55 93
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> http://www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr/Miguel-Ortiz-Lombardia

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