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Dennis Ritchie Interviewed
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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For a minute there i thought it said "Denise Richards". Oh well, still an interesting read!
"You had this look that of an angel, it was such a bad disguise" --Dishwalla
>>Sure, he invented C, but is he curently trying to gain any segway into the Lunix market?
>You know, just because it's slashdot doesn't mean every single article must somehow be related to linux.
Or the Segway, for that matter. I'm getting tired of this subliminal guerilla marketing!
You must be confusing me with someone else. I've never "bashed" BSD, Linux or any other OS for that matter. It's unfortunate that the Slashdot posting history only shows 25 entries, otherwise you'd be free to read what I've posted in the last three years or so. I have an opinion why one may be better than the other in a given circumstance, but "bashing" would be too strong a word, here.
so what drove you here?
You say that like coming "here" requires some sort of membership. Technology is technology, and I find it fascinating, like most 'geeks'. Slashdot does a half-decent good job of covering stories about technology that I'd otherwise not be aware of.
anti-M$ bullshit that gives us pleasure
Whatever makes you tick, I suppose.
Do you see me going to "Bill Gates is a god" list and supporting linux? No! So you should lay off too.
"Lay off"? As in, don't post? Why? Because you don't like what I happen to say? Put me in your "foes" list, tweak your comment scoring preferences and indent me into oblivion. I'm certainly not forcing you to read my "Wind0ws r0xxorz" posts.
I do however enjoy the occasional opportunity to use Slashdot to point out why Slashdot is not as enjoyable as it used to be. It's too bad you can't see that for what it is, but then again I rarely expect that much.
No shit. I imagine the encounter went something like this...
CowboyNeal: Sweet, it's like a interview by like some famous guy. Something about Unix. Don't we do Unix?
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: Dude, I am so stoned right now I have no idea what's happening.
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: You look kindof purdy in the right neal baby. *girlish giggle*
*BONG HIT*
CowboyNeal: Wow. My screens all pretty *giggle*. What where we doing again?
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: You where like.. *giggle*.. posting a story or something. On some website or something *long drawn out laughter*
*BONG HIT*
CowboyNeal: Hehehehehhe. I clicked submit. You know like submit.
-1 Offtopic. Yeah maybe but I had fun writing it.
They got stoned, not drunk.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
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Oh, the heresy of it all! Actually, over in comp.unix.admin, a number of old-school Unix people have similiar headers in their messages; Dennis once said (1995 or 1996 issue of Byte magazine) that "Unix will never be a desktop operating system"; all of the MacOS X users have proven him wrong.
- Sam
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