Le Mardi 18 Octobre 2011 16:36 CEST, Sabuj Pattanayek <sab...@gmail.com> a écrit:
Should I understand that Gérard Brigogne really meant that Ritchie's achievements were peanuts ? Yet, after so many years in England I thought Gerard mastered British humour rather well... Encore un effort Gérard.... Philippe Dumas > The silence on this list was deafening. > > > group is saying: "OK, so he discovered fire and invented the wheel - but > > what has he done since?". > > 1983 Turing Award > 1990 IEEE Hamming medal > 1999 National Medal of Technology > 2011 Japan Prize for Information and Communications (while he was > still alive I think) > > Even if he hadn't done anything technologically innovative that was > made public since C and UNIX, his C book (which was the first > programming book I read in it's entirety) and the foundations of his > OS have helped countless millions of people. I find it sad that in > many undergrad computer science curricula, C is no longer being > taught. If you want to understand how software works under the hood > you either learn assembly or C.
