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Dennis Ritchie Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the r-in-k-&-r dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Unix.se has published an interview with Dennis Ritchie (inventor of C, co-creator of Unix)." Not very technical, but Dennis shares his thoughts on GNU, kernel design, and more.

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  1. Ritchie's Plan 9 by faeryman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please support his OS - Plan 9. If you won't do it for the geeky sake, please..do it for Glenda!

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    1. Re: Ritchie's Plan 9 by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


      > Please support his OS - Plan 9.

      That's the one from Outer Space, right?

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    2. Re:Ritchie's Plan 9 by God!+Awful+2 · · Score: 4, Funny


      According to this the licensing terms of Plan 9 are unacceptable to the GNU Foundation.
      Yeah, but according to the article the GNU foundation is unacceptable to Dennis Ritchie.

      -a

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  2. uh by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, just because it's slashdot doesn't mean every single article must somehow be related to linux.

    Or were you trying the old "early linux post == karma" trick?

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  3. What the editors were thinking... by ajuda · · Score: 5, Funny

    CowboyNeal: Wow an interview with a famous guy! Let's post it
    CmdrTco: But the article is short and doesn't give any insights into anything
    CowboyNeal: Whatever, let's post the story and get drunk

    This isn't a troll, I really think this must have happened.

  4. Kernel design? by metlin · · Score: 3, Funny


    Not to nitpick, but there's just about one sentence on kernel design in the interview. Misleading storyline :-/

  5. Man... by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I annot wait till his opyright on the letter " " expires.

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  6. Who was interviewed? by PBTek · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did anyone else initially read this as "Denise Richards Interviewed"?

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  7. Re:Timely? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Apparently the retard yankee can't figure out that's 7th February 2003 ... you know, today.

  8. What ? by KoolDude · · Score: 4, Funny


    ...My own environment (on PC hardware) actually runs Windows NT...

    That's it. I am not using C, Unix and Unix Derivatives ever again. Oh, wait...

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  9. Another "interview" by WG55 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone posted a parody on aus.tv of Dennis Ritchie being interviewed on an AOL chat session. It's more a jab at the AOL'ers, but I thought it was quite good.

  10. Re:Just because Ritchie said it.. by meadowsp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heretic!!

    Blasphemer!!

    Burn him for a witch.

  11. Without "C" by MS · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe you already knew this joke...:

    ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!

    First there was Unix... Now there's AIX, AU/X, BSD, BSDI, Dynix, EP/IX, FTX, Hurricane, HP-UX, Irix, Linux, Mach, Minix, NextStep, Open Desktop, OSF/1, OSX, PC/IX, Plan 9, Polyx, Posix, QNX, Risc/OS, Risc/ix, SCO Unix, Sinix, Solaris, Sprite, SunOS, SVRx, Topaz, Tunis, Ultrix, Unicos, V, v10, Xenix, ..."

  12. Denise Ritchie knows unix? by mr_minus · · Score: 2, Funny

    scanning the headlines i thought it said "denise ritchie" and thought, "wow, great looks *and* unix proficient." I was so disappointed when i re-read it.

  13. Re:I'm sorry, but by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    As Dr. Evil once said: put that in your pipe and smoke it. Yeah, I said pipe.

    Okay!

    $ echo "Dennis Ritchie uses NT" | smoke

  14. Resume by Swaffs · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Dennis Ritchie (inventor of C, co-creator of Unix)"

    It must feel good to be able to put that on a resume.

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