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| Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie 1941-2011 |
He wasn't a greedy misanthropist who sold shiny gadgets made with sweatshop labour.
He created the most widely used programming language in the world which became the foundation of virtually every modern piece of technology. The C programming language is incredibly powerful yet, so concise that the document (lovingly known as K&R) that completely describes it is a small soft-cover book only 274 pages long.
Yet, hardly a news outlet will mention his passing, geek and technology sites notwithstanding. In fact, he died 5 days before the news of his death was made public
I've written millions of lines of C in my day. Here's one more.
main()
{
printf("Goodbye, dmr/n");
}
