Also
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/dennis-ritchie
He was considered important enough to be highlighted in a general
interest newspaper.
Eleanor
On 10/18/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Gruene wrote:
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Dear Miguel,
There are a couple of well-written obituaries:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/
To acknowledge his work, you might start you list counting from 0 rather
than 1 and swap the two items, because C was developed since Fortran did
not match the requirements to develop an OS like UNIX.
Tim
On 10/18/2011 10:58 AM, Miguel Ortiz LombardÃa 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.
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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen
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