On 11-10-16 2:21 AM, David Mann wrote:
On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-10-15 5:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
The original design of Unix contains so many
ideas that were radical, far from obvious, and turned out to be right,
and more or less zero ideas that turned out to be
On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> On 11-10-15 5:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
>> The original design of Unix contains so many
>> ideas that were radical, far from obvious, and turned out to be right,
>> and more or less zero ideas that turned out to be wrong;
>
> creat(2) should have
Thanks for heads up, Larry. On a whim, I bought myself a new Kindle,
that little $79 one. I spent much of the day reading on it (we have a
bit of a mid semester break now) and, of course, it's based on Linux.
I wonder how long it will take our technology to lose its connection
to Ritchie's work.
On 11-10-15 5:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
The original design of Unix contains so many
ideas that were radical, far from obvious, and turned out to be right,
and more or less zero ideas that turned out to be wrong;
creat(2) should have been spelled with an 'e'.
:-)
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Perhaps it's because I'm an old geek and can remember when V7 Unix was
new and exciting, but in my mind Ritchie and Thompson loom larger than
any of those other guys. The original design of Unix contains so many
ideas that were radical, far from obvious, and turned out to be right,
and more or les
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
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:03:06AM -0500, Darren Addy wrote:
> The term "Microsoft garbage" is redundant.
>
> Darren Addy
Not in the terms of C/C++ programming it isn't.
The Visual C products have long been serious contenders for
the title of "best C development and debugging environment".
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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
The term "Microsoft garbage" is redundant.
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:15:32 -0700
From: Larry Colen
>
>
>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
Wired is on it:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/
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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 so
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 compu
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