To me it is different. I feel bad for Dennis, and those who knew him, and I acknowledge and felt melancholy at his passing. But it was a nostalgic feeling. I feel bad for ME, and those I know, when thinking about Steve's passing. Because I am going to miss out on what he might have made next.
With that distinction, though, I cannot possibly exaggerate how much more I enjoyed C than the Basic and Pascal and PL/I and Fortran and assembler I was doing right before I started coding in C. For that he will always have my thanks. Jerry On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies > > > > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/ > > Within the respective fan bases, I think it will be. Admittedly, I > didn't know who this was till he died, but then I don't have a CS > degree and have never been a C programmer. > > Definitely a big deal and I have mad respect for him, knowing his > impact. I wouldn't expect the genpop to know his name as well as > Steve Jobs' name though. > > -Cameron > > .. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
