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Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away

Posted by samzenpus on from the code-in-peace dept.

WankerWeasel writes "The sad news of the death of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS, we have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too, as many of the applications you're using were written in C."

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  1. Re:Goodbye by Richard_at_work · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There are some dumb shits on Slashdot these days.

    Can you people not understand the difference between "attacking x" and "attacking y, in a thread related to x"?

    I never said don't give him credit.

    I never said don't praise him.

    What I did was challenge the original posters comment (paraphrased) "to say that without him, nothing we have today would exist" and say that it is a load of absolute bollocks. Do you really think that the computing community wasn't ripe at the time for the change of the type that C and UNIX brought along? Are you really standing by the original posters assertion that no one but Ritchie could have possibly built the foundation upon which our modern world is built?

    Thats your bullshit right there - but I'm sorry, you've got an idea into your head that my comment was an attack on Ritchie (it was not), so I don't think that you ever stopped to actually think.

    And if you think that a comment in a Slashdot thread is in any way comparable to a Westboro protest, then you really need to examine your priorities.