[Info-vax] AP: Dennis Ritchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies

[John Wallace]

On Oct 14, 2:43 am, "Forster, Michael" <mfors... at mcw.edu> wrote:
> A story from AP:
>
> Dennis Ritchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16036/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CNLtbdwb>

Turning the pages of the hardcopy (Manchester) Guardian earlier today,
I was very pleasantly surprised (well, as pleasant as you can be in
the circumstances) to see that dmr was the lead obit, the whole
section to himself, and got a really quite good writeup.

It's at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/dennis-ritchie

In looking for what else the writer (Martin Campbell-Kelly, not a name
I recognise) had done for the Grauniad, he's done quite a few obits,
also recently including one for Daniel (D) McCracken. That's another
author whose books will be familiar to many of a certain age. I'd not
seen it reported elsewhere.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/daniel-mccracken-obituary

I assume the Martin Campbell-Kelly in this picture is the one who is
Professor of Computer Science at Warwick University:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/martin_campbell-kelly/

Thank you, Professor Campbell-Kelly, for making bad news marginally
more bearable.