Dennis Ritchie, one of the people behind UNIX and the C language, has died. (via skullY on #dragonflybsd on EFNet) Look at his Bell Labs web page for some details on his history. The death of Steve Jobs will get a lot of media attention, but I’d argue that Ritchie affected more computers in far more ways.
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Agreed!
RIP, Mr. Ritchie!
I knew Ritchie’s name (and Kernighan’s) before I’d ever heard of Steve Jobs.
Where would modern computing be without this guy?
It’s a sad day for sure.
Requiem in pacem.