Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

2011-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
We have lost a giant in our industry -- truly a great man. He will be missed. --kevin -- "Believe me on this. The free cocaine was nowhere in evidence, I consumed no cigar-sized hash bombers, the insistent, complaisant lovelies were elsewhere by the time I got back from dinner. Indeed, the

Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

2011-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
Very sad. On 10/12/2011 09:39 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote: > Wikipedia has his death listed as December 9th, with attribution to an > announcement made by Rob Pike via Google +. > > I trust Rob to have verified it. > > Sorrow can not describe the feeling I have now. > > md > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 a

Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

2011-10-12 Thread Jon "maddog" Hall
Wikipedia has his death listed as December 9th, with attribution to an announcement made by Rob Pike via Google +. I trust Rob to have verified it. Sorrow can not describe the feeling I have now. md On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 21:15 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > OS News is reporting this as unconfirm

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

2011-10-12 Thread Randy Edwards
OS News is reporting this as unconfirmed: . -- "The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@m