On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:23:24PM +1300, David Mann wrote: > On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Wednesday evening, on another mailing list I was pointed to a saddening > > post on Tim Bray's blog. Last week, Dennis Ritchie passed away. > > > > This news will almost certainly cause one of two reactions: > > "Who?" > > or > > Dismay that we have lost someone who has arguably contributed more to the > > world of computing than Jobs, Torvalds and Stallman combined. > > I'm in the second camp but I'm pleased that the mainstream news media has > reported the news. I haven't used C for a long time.
It's still my everyday language. Admittedly nowadays I tend to write something halfway between C and C++ (and even when I use just C it's not K&R C). I actually exchanged a couple of emails with dmr just over ten years ago when he saw I posting I'd made in alk.folklore.computers about strategy for the game of Moo (similar to Mastermind); he pointed me to an article which made a brief mention of some investigation Ken Thompson had done. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
