On 10/14/11 03:22, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote:
Dennis Ritchie should be the patron saint of software development and
engineering. :)

No matter how disgusting the notion of patron is to me, I feel Ada Lovelace would have to be considered too. She's not as freshly dead but is Den's father too. This is to put an end to the Jobs / Ritchie mise en abime.


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, OpenBSD Europe <m...@openbsdeurope.com>wrote:
On 13/10/11 11:32, Donald Reichert wrote:

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Datum: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:14:20 +0200
Von: David Coppa<dco...@gmail.com>
An: misc@openbsd.org
Betreff: Dennis Ritchie

  Today is a sad sad day :(
Rest in Peace.
Without you, we would never be here.

Cheers,
David

He died last weekend. RIP.

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("goodbye, dad\n");
return 0;
}

I vote for the next release artwork tributing his work some way :-)

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