did either of them wear turtlenecks? On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Two towering figures in computing died this month, besides Steve > Jobs. A good case can be made that their contributions are as > great as his, if not greater. The first was Dennis Ritchie who > died at the age of 70 on October 13th. Ritchie invented the C > programming language and the Unix operating system, two of the > technologies that are key to the distributed computing today that > makes the Internet possible. The other is John McCarthy who died > yesterday at the age of 84. Like McCarthy, Ritchie was a major > innovator in both languages and operating systems. He was the > father of time-sharing, the key component of mainframe operating > systems that allowed multiple users to access the computer as if > they were the exclusive owner. McCarthy went on to become a > pioneer of artificial intelligence and created a language called > LISP that is widely used in this arena. > > full: > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/reflections-on-the-passing-of-john-mccarthy-and-dennis-ritchie/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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