From: brantleycoile@me.com (Brantley Coile)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP Dennis Ritchie
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:54:27 -0400 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <9c9edf8b-b7bc-0d81-576b-1dafac1d816a@aueb.gr>
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I think of Dennis almost daily, maybe because I program in C daily.
I miss him. I would always seek him out at conferences for a chat and get his opinion on things. The power of his mind and his creative powers were exceeded only by his gentlemanliness. He was that rare combination of qualities, high functioning theoretical and practical, architect and builder, designer and coder. I learned to truly program from a combination of reading Dennis and Ken’s code (I can tell them apart) and reading Brian’s prose.
At SouthSuite our Plan 9 authentication server is named “dmr.”
Brantley Coile
http://coraid.com
> On Oct 13, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
>
> Wired is currently listing the 2011 article reporting the death of Dennis Ritchie as the second most popular one. dmr left this world of transient bits exactly five years ago.
>
> On 13/10/2016 08:43, Paul Osborne wrote:
>> Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has passed away.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-13 5:43 Paul Osborne
2016-10-13 5:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-10-13 7:28 ` Paul Osborne
2016-10-13 6:04 ` Warner Losh
2016-10-13 6:04 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-10-13 14:54 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2016-10-13 13:36 ` Clem Cole
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2016-10-13 12:51 Norman Wilson
2016-10-13 13:50 ` Armando Stettner
2015-10-11 19:09 Dave Horsfall
2015-10-11 20:02 ` Ron Natalie
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