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RIP Dennis Ritchie
You gave us C, and contributed to Unix. For all of you non geeks out there, Unix' is where the X in MacOX comes from. The power under the 
hood. C is quite simply the programming language most used in science Departments. Or at least mathematics and computer science - you know, those that know what they're doing. I cannot program in C even really simple stuff (believe me, I've tried) but I do remember studying The C Programming Language with pleasure for months back in 1991.
I tend to think of Unix and its dialects as a source of regret every time I have a bad hand at Scrabble - longing to be able to compose standard unix commands like lpr.
The best free software around is Unix based - it's the GNU software, were GNU is an acronym fro GNU's Not Unix (self-reference is much loved by mathematicians and computer scientists alike - click at your own risk and don't forget to mouse over).
This man changed my life, and the life of everyone I work with and everyone I've studied with. And I just found out he had very beautiful hands.
You will be missed, but we will cherish your gift.
hood. C is quite simply the programming language most used in science Departments. Or at least mathematics and computer science - you know, those that know what they're doing. I cannot program in C even really simple stuff (believe me, I've tried) but I do remember studying The C Programming Language with pleasure for months back in 1991. I tend to think of Unix and its dialects as a source of regret every time I have a bad hand at Scrabble - longing to be able to compose standard unix commands like lpr.
The best free software around is Unix based - it's the GNU software, were GNU is an acronym fro GNU's Not Unix (self-reference is much loved by mathematicians and computer scientists alike - click at your own risk and don't forget to mouse over).This man changed my life, and the life of everyone I work with and everyone I've studied with. And I just found out he had very beautiful hands.
You will be missed, but we will cherish your gift.