[Info-vax] Dennis Ritchie has passed on.

[Stafford Winters]

On 10/14/2011 7:59 AM, JohnF wrote:
> 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"); }

Interesting.  My son posted the printf last night on Facebook.