[Info-vax] Dennis Ritchie has passed on.

[JohnF]

Rich Jordan <jordan 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.

Someone in sci.math posted an appropriate K&R epitaph
#include <stdio.h>
main( ) {
  printf("goodbye, world\n"); }
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John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )