Rob Pike a former colleague of the late Ritchie summarizes it well in his g+ post.
https://plus.google.com/u/2/101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]>wrote: > As somebody wrote, beware any programming text that is significantly fatter > than the K&R book. Concision is a word that keeps being used to describe the > man. > There was also his work on Plan 9, which was supposed to be a UNIX > successor. It never got widely adopted, for all sorts of reasons, but the > ideas therein live on even in Linux (file-centric rather than API-centric > access to I/O, UTF-8). > > P. > > On Oct 13, 2011, at 16:36, Wilson Abigaba wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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