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Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away
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."
"he'd have died a rich man"
I'm trying to get my head around this. It sounds like praise, but I hear nothing good.
Is dying as a wealthy man an acheivement?
From what I've just read about the man, it seems like he lived a rich life - so who cares about wealth when you're gone?
This post contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.
How about you and everyone else who replied to me FUCKING READ SHIT before replying...
I never said "ignore or make light of his contributions".
I was taking issue with the original posters assertion that without him, nothing we have computing wise in the modern world would exist. Which is patently ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS.
Sure, Ritchie came up with what he did - but if he didn't, someone else would have - and we would still have the modern world, stuff would still have been written, the next language would still have been created and LIFE WOULD HAVE GONE ON.
So, show me where I said to "ignore or make light of his contributions", because I never did - I don't take issue with him being remembered for the work that he did, I take issue with the assertion that if he didn't do it then our modern would would be fucked.
I wish all apple fanbois follow their god and make this world even better.