[Info-vax] RIP: Dennis Ritchie (UNIX / C)

[Neil Rieck]

On Oct 16, 4:32 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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 athttp://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-obi...
>
> 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.

Thank god for the Guardian (as well as "BBC Television on PBS" and
"BBC World Service on Sirius"). Most news outlets in Canada and the US
seem to preferentially carry Hollywood super-star minutia and it seems
to me that their coverage of Steve Jobs was more of the super-star
stuff. And while I'm on my soap box, why do newspapers still carry a
daily astrology blurb instead of a daily astronomy blurb?

NSR