arstechnica wrote:Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest. Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.
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A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
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110% agreed...GreyWolf wrote:A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
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Silent warriors don't get applauded. Ever.rustypup wrote:110% agreed...GreyWolf wrote:A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
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So it is not really what you do that makes you noteworthy - it is running a multimillion dollar corporation that does.
Until this thread - I never even knew who had developed C and Unix. The power of advertising....
Until this thread - I never even knew who had developed C and Unix. The power of advertising....