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rthompson80819

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The father of C dies
« on: October 15, 2011, 09:27:01 PM »
Dennis Ritchie, who is one of the creators of the C programming language just passed away.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/index.html

Since most of DOS and a good part of windows was written in C, his passing is possibly more significant than Steve Jobs.

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Re: The father of C dies
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2011, 01:04:19 AM »
Do we need to vote?  ;)  ;D