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Armando:
Can't resist... One last link : Dennis Ritchie: the other man inside your iPhone

Tuxman:
HE IS IN MY IPHONE!?!??!?!?  ;D

Good I don't use these lifestyle trash gadgets.

Carol Haynes:
Like many others, when I came across the C programming language book by Kernighan and Ritchie sometime in the mid 80s, I was instantly taken by the language. (see attachment in previous post)
What a book, what a language, what an age.
-mouser (October 13, 2011, 09:14 AM)
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Cooo ... that's a blast from the past - I taught using that book in the 80s and now I forgotten everything I ever knew about C (apart from the idea of pointers which were a brilliant idea but VERY easy to get wrong!)

To have a computer language stand at the top of the programming pile for so long is testament to the man's genius.

MerleOne:
A nice tribute to Dennis Ritchie in a French magazine :

http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/dennis-ritchie-l-autre-genie-mort-en-octobre-2011-17-10-2011-1385493_47.php

It starts with "He was one of the greatest computer scientist of the planet, if not the greatest...."

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