Excerpts from Lorenzo Sutton's message of 2011-10-13 11:23:28 +0200: > It seems Dennis Ritchie [1] passed away last week end. > He was the inventor of the C programming language and core developer of > UNIX. > > I guess we are all relying in some way or another on this man's research > and inventions in our 'contemporary computer lives'. > > Lorenzo. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
I just read it as well. I guess everyone has to go sometime, but it always hurts more if you build on the persons work. For me "The C Programming Language" is one of the best books I ever read because of its clear style and lack of redundancy. I don't know whether this was primarily his or Brian Kernighans doing. I guess he really was one of the most influential computer scientists. May he rest in peace _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
