Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
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Just heard an very good obituary for Dennis Ritchie in the mainstream media (BBC Radio 4 Last Word program). RadioPlayer[^] for UK people or podcast Podcast[^] for all. They delayed it for a week as they wanted a contribution from Brian Kernighan.
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca
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Just heard an very good obituary for Dennis Ritchie in the mainstream media (BBC Radio 4 Last Word program). RadioPlayer[^] for UK people or podcast Podcast[^] for all. They delayed it for a week as they wanted a contribution from Brian Kernighan.
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca
Outrageous to think of the media hype that surrounded Steve Jobs who, lets face it, was a marketing guy who happened to work for a tech company and was very succesful in presenting an image as the "ideas man". Here we have one of the guys who started it all whose contribution to technology is immeasurably greater and yet there is barely a peep from the media. RIP Dennis but you will live on in our hearts and minds every time we cut some C code at our Unix workstation :-)
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Outrageous to think of the media hype that surrounded Steve Jobs who, lets face it, was a marketing guy who happened to work for a tech company and was very succesful in presenting an image as the "ideas man". Here we have one of the guys who started it all whose contribution to technology is immeasurably greater and yet there is barely a peep from the media. RIP Dennis but you will live on in our hearts and minds every time we cut some C code at our Unix workstation :-)
And now John McCarthy! :( The original giants are leaving us... Wired News Link Mind you, me and Lisp never got on!! Darragh
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Outrageous to think of the media hype that surrounded Steve Jobs who, lets face it, was a marketing guy who happened to work for a tech company and was very succesful in presenting an image as the "ideas man". Here we have one of the guys who started it all whose contribution to technology is immeasurably greater and yet there is barely a peep from the media. RIP Dennis but you will live on in our hearts and minds every time we cut some C code at our Unix workstation :-)
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