Not so famous as Steve Jobs, perhaps, but he might have made the world an
even better place. Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) died on October 8. One obit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
His home page:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
Thanks from Popular Science:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/thank-you-dennis-ritchie-wi
thout-whom-none-would-be-here
"Everything we've got -- Internet servers, telephone backbones, the
microprocessor in the keyboard I'm using to type this -- emanates from
Ritchie's work."
May he rest in peace.
Bob Molyneux
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