And as evidence that he was more than us mere mortals, he did most of his best work using the line editor "ed".
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 18:09, Bob Molyneux <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391> > > Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Dennis_Ritchie<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie> > > His home page: > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/**who/dmr/<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<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 > [email protected] >
