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

[John Wallace]

On Oct 17, 12:52 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 4:32 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > On Oct 14, 2:43 am, "Forster, Michael" <mfors... at mcw.edu> wrote:
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> > > A story from AP:
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> > > DennisRitchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16036/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CNLtbdwb>
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> > 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.
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> > It's athttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/dennis-ritchie
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> > 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.
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> >http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/daniel-mccracken-obi...
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> > 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/
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> > Thank you, Professor Campbell-Kelly, for making bad news marginally
> > more bearable.
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> 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?
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> NSR

There was coverage of Dennis Ritchie in this week's BBC Radio 4
obituary programme, "Last Word" (as mentioned earlier). I only caught
the tail end (wasted too much time faffing about with a new-to-me
alleged DAB receiver). Tim Berners-Lee was one of (I presume) several
folks speaking. You can find the obit online via BBC Listen Again at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l9xhw
and I will do so in due course.

Whether or not you like the language, the book was a classic.
Stroustrup's book, on the other hand...