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Geek Culture / Dennis Ritchie Passes Away

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XanthorXIII
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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 20:58 Edited at: 14th Oct 2011 16:42
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** Mod edit **

This post was a bit flamy, in future when someone passes, post it honourably without any derogatory remarks. Have some respect.

- Daniel TGC

Further information posted by the moderator, an extract from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 8, 2011) was an American computer scientist notable for developing C and for having influence on other programming languages, as well as operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 21:07 Edited at: 15th Oct 2011 05:07
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Quote: "Sad Day today as we have found out that Dennis Ritchie passed away. Say what you will of Steve Jobs, this man was a true genius that did more for the world than Steve Jobs actually did.
The engineers are the true miracle makers not these phony PR stunt men."

Not sure I could possibly disagree anymore.

RIP Ritchie, you did far more for the world than most well accomplished people.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 21:18
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I won't be dissing Jobs, but I would tend to agree I believe C and Unix are far more important innovations than anything to come from Apple. RIP and thanks Ritchie.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 22:33 Edited at: 13th Oct 2011 22:34
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Edited because I didn't mean any disrespect, quite the converse.
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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 22:42 Edited at: 13th Oct 2011 22:43
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Well if there wasn't any Dennis Ritchie there wouldn't have been any Apple. Although I think trying to compare him and Steve Jobs is idiocy since they both innovated upon different things, I wouldn't say one man is better than the other.

RIP, Ritchie

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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 23:39
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may I ask, why the heck you are comparing him to apple, and trying to make an apple/dennis flamewar?
in a thread which appears to be about his death?


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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 23:46
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I for one am very saddened to hear this. It's funny over the past month or so, his book which is more or less the C programmers' bible has been right next to me more or less 24/7. The man was a genius.


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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 06:22
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Both Ritchie and Jobs were great men. Ritchie's contribution to with C, Unix, and portable programming helped accelerate the industry.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 12:35
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They say these things come in threes. I hope that doesn't hold true.

Your signature has been erased by a mod please reduce it to 600 x 120.
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Quel
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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 13:11
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Absolutely not.

It's gonna be four this time.

Actually it is 999.999.548.536.425 at the moment, but with some delays...

-In.Dev.X: A unique heavy story based shoot'em ~35%
-CoreFleet: An underground commander unit based RTS ~15%
-TailsVSEggman: An Sonic themed RTS under development for idea presentation to Sega ~15%
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Daniel TGC
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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 16:26 Edited at: 14th Oct 2011 16:40
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A man died, and we'll all be respectful from now on please. No comparisons, be positive and respectful or I will slap you.

Thank you for all your innovations Dennis Ritchie, rest in peace. May you live on through your science.
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Posted: 14th Oct 2011 16:48
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RiP Dennis Ritchie.


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Posted: 15th Oct 2011 00:35
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Rest in peace


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Posted: 16th Oct 2011 20:29 Edited at: 17th Oct 2011 13:28
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** Mod edit **

Don't care, don't post about jobs again. It's not relevant. Praise the man you came to praise, or don't post.

- Daniel TGC
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I honestly didn't know who he was, but nevertheless, without him, DBP wouldn't exist probably, nor would any other C based language, so i gotta pay my respects.

RIP
Dennis Ritchie

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^^ That's true. We would not have any C-based languages, but there would have been others to fill the gap. DBP may still have been, but as with any kind of history, if Dennis Ritchie weren't around at all, then the entire course of computers would have changed. If UNIX never existed, just imagine all the changes that would have taken place. Sure, we wouldn't have Linux, but we might not even have had Windows, since Microsoft originally sold a version of UNIX which led them to develop Windows in the first place. Wow, it's sad that he's gone.


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If i'm not mistaken, DBP was developed with C++ so i don't think DBP would exist.

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It seems I owe this man my job and my education.
Thank you, rest in peace.

Regards,

Max
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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Oct 2011 06:48
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Quote: "If i'm not mistaken, DBP was developed with C++ so i don't think DBP would exist."


Touche. I just meant that BASIC itself might still be around.


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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 24th Oct 2011 16:22
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True dat ^_^

I'm thankful that he did what he did cause, if not for it, i'd be one bored dude.

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