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by rustypup » 14 Oct 2011, 10:29
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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by hamin_aus » 14 Oct 2011, 11:03
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by GreyWolf » 14 Oct 2011, 11:27
A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
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by rustypup » 14 Oct 2011, 11:44
GreyWolf wrote: A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
110% agreed...
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by Sojourn » 14 Oct 2011, 21:11
rustypup wrote: GreyWolf wrote: A man certainly deserving more praise and recognition than some fruit farmer from Cupertino.
110% agreed...
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by Tribble » 15 Oct 2011, 06:43
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....