On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:33, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> wrote:
> FYI.
>
> "Just one week after the tech industry was hit with the news of Steve Jobs'
> death, computer scientist Dennis Ritchie has also passed.

His book taught my by first lines of C (and programming) from first
principles. RIP!

Regards,
Wilson

> The unfortunate news was announced by friend and colleague Rob Pike, who 
> notes that Ritchie
> died at his home after a "long illness." The 70-year-old Harvard graduate
> and veteran of Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs was credited with authoring
> the C programming language."
>
> http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/12/programmer.passes.after.fight.with.illness/
>
>
> --
> Hari
>
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