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

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:38:30 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:11:37 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
> 
>> In article <9gr8cpF9tmU3 at mid.individual.net>,
>>  Bob Eager <news0001 at eager.cx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:10:07 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>>> 
>>> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:46:30 -0700 (PDT) John Wallace
>>> > <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> > 
>>> >> 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...
>>> > 
>>> > Indeed, I have come across quite a few complements about the book
>>> > recently.
>>> 
>>>    ~~~~
>> 
>> Que?
>> 
>> I meant compliments of course.  I didn't particularly notice at the
>> time since I was used to VMS documentation, but quite a few folks have
>> remarked recently about how well the K&R book was written.
> 
> It was. As no doubt you noticed, I responded with a few C
> 'complements'..!

Duh! I must try out a different font. That looked like four minus signs 
at the time.



-- 
Paul Sture