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Title: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: skeezix on October 15, 2016, 2331 UTC

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie

 :'(

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: JCMaxwell on October 15, 2016, 2343 UTC

Damn!

 :(

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: skeezix on October 16, 2016, 0050 UTC

Even though its been a few years, it still hard. *nix is is the world I live in. While I complain daily about the noise around me at work, I often think, would it be better if I work in the server room with a clattering TTY? Honestly, yes, that would be less distraction than people.

http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/102680487-03-01?$re-medium$

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: JCMaxwell on October 16, 2016, 0057 UTC

K & R C is directly behind me on the bookshelf.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: Fansome on October 16, 2016, 0240 UTC

Yeah, I loved "All Night Long", and, of course, who can forget "Say You, Say Me" .

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: WA4FHY on October 17, 2016, 0426 UTC

Bummer. I spent many a late hour buried in K&R C - the real C,
before the days of OOP and C++ and Visual C

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: Fansome on October 17, 2016, 0722 UTC

I don't normally get involved in religious or political arguments, but I have to interject here.

First of all, block-structured languages, including C, owe a huge debt to Algol. And they all, in turn, owe something to Noam Chomsky's context-free grammar.

Secondly, K&R C has a multitude of ambiguities and outright flaws that almost guarantee serious bugs in large programs.

ANSI C was a huge improvement over K&R C, in that it addressed many of the weaknesses in K&R C. I know that this will offend many people, but using K&R instead of ANSI nowadays is irresponsible.

Now, let's start advocating for a turn back to assembly language, the only programming language for Real Men.

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 17, 2016, 1129 UTC

Quote from: Fansome on October 17, 2016, 0722 UTC

Now, let's start advocating for a turn back to assembly language, the only programming language for Real Men.

Al, any truth to the rumors that you own the rights to all the major punch card patents?

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: jFarley on October 17, 2016, 1256 UTC

Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on October 17, 2016, 1129 UTC

Quote from: Fansome on October 17, 2016, 0722 UTC

Now, let's start advocating for a turn back to assembly language, the only programming language for Real Men.

Al, any truth to the rumors that you own the rights to all the major punch card patents?

And also development tools.  The first debugger:

Title: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Post by: ka1iic on October 20, 2016, 1751 UTC

Quote from: JCMaxwell on October 16, 2016, 0057 UTC

K & R C is directly behind me on the bookshelf.

Yep JCM... Me too also on the K & R C...  one of the few books I can find in the pile.  Along with that huge antenna book by.... hmmmm.

I do have a special pile of books etc by and about Richard Feynman...  That's where I spend most of my time of late.  Doing fun math to a degree that I can no longer do my check book... ;-)  or want too...