Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies

[skeezix]

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

 

[JCMaxwell]

Damn!

 

[skeezix]

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?$re-medium$

[JCMaxwell]

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

[Fansome]

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

[WA4FHY]

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

[Fansome]

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.

[ChrisSmolinski]

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?

[jFarley]

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:

[ka1iic]

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...