[Info-vax] Dennis Ritchie has passed on.

[Jojimbo]

On Oct 13, 9:58 am, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> Dennis Ritchie has passed away.  He was (one of?) the creator(s) of
> the C programming language and also a primary developer of Unix.
>
> I'm not a huge fan of Unix (though it beats the MS alternatives all to
> heck) but I've enjoyed 'C' since I took that first class using it in
> 1984 or so (on an 11/750 running BSD), and my two K&R 'C' books are
> still some of the best references I've ever used.  R.I.P.  Mr Ritchie.

Very sad indeed.  I can barely remember that back in the day you used
to get a K&R book with your shiny new Ultrix system.  Sort of like
getting a physics book with your new car, at least I always thought
so.  I personally always struggled with C although I wrote plenty of
code with it.  My main strategy was add "&" and if that didn't work
add another, or remove them altogether until the access violation went
away.  Remember the "register" declaration?  Now that was close to the
iron.

Regards, Jim