[Info-vax] Dennis Ritchie has passed on.

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:11:15 -0700, Jojimbo wrote:

> 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.

I never had (or have) any trouble with that. But then, one of the early 
languages I learned was BCPL - the grandfather of C.


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