============== ORIGINAL MESSAGE ============== To: austin-grou...@opengroup.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:36:26 +0200
Dennis Ritchie, one of the two fathers of UNIX, and the father of C, has passed away today. > via Rob Pike - 8:02 PM - Public > I just heard that, after a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (dmr) > died at home this weekend. I have no more information. > > I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of > his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately. > > He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my > friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost > a truly great mind.
