Dennis Ritchie...we hardly knew ye.

[JediKooter]

One of the co-inventors of UNIX and C has passed on...

BBC News - Unix creator Dennis Ritchie dies aged 70 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391)

[Radii]

the quotes at the end of that article:

"Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs's; it's just less visible."

"It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie. I’ve been living in a world he helped invent for over thirty years."

+1 to that, absolutely.

http://www.herongyang.com/Computer-History/The-C-Programming-Language.jpg

One of the first programming books I ever bought, its in a box somewhere in the house.

[Glengoyne]

the quotes at the end of that article:

"Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs's; it's just less visible."

"It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie. I’ve been living in a world he helped invent for over thirty years."

+1 to that, absolutely.

http://www.herongyang.com/Computer-History/The-C-Programming-Language.jpg

One of the first programming books I ever bought, its in a box somewhere in the house.


Right on the bookshelf in my office.

[Suicane75]

Not only did I hardly know he, I literally never knew of he.

[Castlerock]

the quotes at the end of that article:

"Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs's; it's just less visible."

Easy to argue that Ritchie's influence dwarfed that of Jobs.

"It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie. I’ve been living in a world he helped invent for over thirty years."

+1 to that, absolutely.

+1


One of the first programming books I ever bought, its in a box somewhere in the house.
Over the years I have used that book SO much.

A quote from the end of:
Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/)

Ritchie lived in a very different time and worked in a very different environment than someone like Jobs. It only makes sense that he wouldn’t get his due. But those who matter understand the mark he left. “There’s that line from Newton about standing on the shoulders of giants,” says Kernighan. “We’re all standing on Dennis’ shoulders.”
The world lost a true giant. Too bad this thread has so few views.

[Matthean]

Even going beyond C and Unix, Unix spawned the number one open source OS, Linux. C spawned C++, which in turn enabled Java and C# to happen. The likely hood of somebody using an application written in a C inspired language is ridiculously high.

[SteveMax58]

This is one of those people that changed the world you live in, without you ever even knowing it (at least those who didn't go into programming of any sorts).

RIP Mr. Ritchie...a true engineer in the purest sense.