On 10/14/2011 10:15, 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 think K&R was the very first professional book I read back in late
1980s or early 1990s still living in Russia. I disagree with your
following comparison though, Larry. Each of these men made their fair
contribution to our world as it is today. To that end I see no sense to
compare them.
Like I could ask you - have you heard of late prof Amir Pnueli, the
Turing price holder, who happened to have invented Temporal Logic?
Likely you did not, but it does not make you any worse a man and him any
less a scientist.
Boris
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