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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:19:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
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> On Oct 13, 10:18=A0am, dig...@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) wrote:
> >
> > If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
> > the top on my list.

Culture is what is left when everything is forgotten.
Eminent men are the ones remembered when fashionable ones vanished in
the silence following the buzz.

Denis M. Ritchie will be remembered.

And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.
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        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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