I just saw this on GNHLUG. Dennis was a giant in our industry.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:39:55 -0400 From: Jon "maddog" Hall <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Linux International To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Wikipedia has his death listed as December 9th, with attribution to an announcement made by Rob Pike via Google +. I trust Rob to have verified it. Sorrow can not describe the feeling I have now. md On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 21:15 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
OS News is reporting this as unconfirmed: <http://www.osnews.com/story/25232/Dennis_Ritchie_Creator_of_UNIX_and_C_Dead_at_70/>.
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