News - Dennis Ritchie – creator of C and UNIX – dies

[HEXUS]

One of the founding fathers of modern computing dies aged 70.

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[Saracen]

Oh dear. Not that old, either.

I guess that as a technology that's reaching the point where the founding fathers are of "an age", we can expect more and more of this.

RIP, Dennis, and condolences to family and friends.

[aidanjt]

Fair well, Dennis, and thanks for all the C's.

[Saracen]

See also the thread in GD.

[The Hand]

RIP Dennis.
C was the first serious language I had a stab at a while back. As Saracen said we are beginning to lose some of the greats now.
We lost Tony Sale a few weeks ago too.

[Noxvayl]

I am only just beginning to learn about the value of some of the things this man provided for us. I hope we have many more people able to contribute as much as he has.

[freedomzero]

Thanks to Dennis Ritchie we don't have to program with machine codes, which gave us so much more fun in programming.

[wombat]

Rest in peace Dennis and thanks for all the curly brackets :-{

[g8ina]

Im fairly sure I met him when he visited GEC Computers where I worked in the late 80s !

Great man ! Sad.