Re: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Madigan
He died of semicolon cancer.  - Original Message - From: Richard Kaye To: "profox@leafe.com" Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:54 PM Subject: RE: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie No. You leave a pile of pointers... -- rk -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...

RE: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Richard Kaye
No. You leave a pile of pointers... -- rk -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Wolper Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:39 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie > S*d Steve J

RE: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Jerry Wolper
> S*d Steve Jobs... this is a serious RIP I have my copy of K&R > autographed by him at home... Do we leave flowers outside an AT&T Store? -Jerry ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

RE: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Adam Buckland
S*d Steve Jobs... this is a serious RIP I have my copy of K&R autographed by him at home... -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: 13 October 2011 07:48 To: ProFox Email List Subject: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

Re: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Madigan
I just googled this and there is very little news on this.   - Original Message - From: Paul Hill To: ProFox Email List Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:48 AM Subject: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie Hi All, Just heard this sad news. Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming

Re: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Madigan
If it weren't for C, we'd all be programming in BASI and OBOL From: Paul Hill To: ProFox Email List Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:48 AM Subject: [NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie Hi All, Just heard this sad news. Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C p

[NF] RIP Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Hill
Hi All, Just heard this sad news. Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language and Unix co-creator passed away on the 8th of October. C had a huge influence in program language design and is still widely used today. Unix of course is also very influential in OS design, spawning many cl