RIP Dennis Ritchie

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How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless
 
RockerGuy said:
How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless
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Only old school C programmers would know of him I suppose... Ritchie, Straustroup and Knuth were my first guides into the magnificent world of code.
 
Definitely did not see this in any paper today... WTF definitely a bigger pioneer than steve jobs. RIP
 
he authored several of my University text books. I believe they still use those texts today. At the time, they were called the 'C' bibles.
 
Chaos said:
he authored several of my University text books. I believe they still use those texts today. At the time, they were called the 'C' bibles.
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I have one on my bookshelf here at work..Ritchie and Kernighan..
 
RockerGuy said:
How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless
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Cuz he wasn't a self-promoting, self-aggrandizing egomaniac. He was an intelligent, scholarly person crafting a language and OS that he loved and that are the foundation of so much of our technology, including Apple OS-X. That doesn't make headlines..he's sort of the anti-Kardashian story..
 
RockerGuy said:
How come I've never heard of this dude??
Smart dude, nevertheless
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Have you ever heard of this dude?

Tim Berners-Lee


I bet you have not .... as most people have not either. But most people know Google, right?
 
invictus43 said:
Cuz he wasn't a self-promoting, self-aggrandizing egomaniac. He was an intelligent, scholarly person crafting a language and OS that he loved and that are the foundation of so much of our technology, including Apple OS-X. That doesn't make headlines..he's sort of the anti-Kardashian story..
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Wow, guys got some cred.
A prof with a few text books under his name?? He must be good at what he does.
He seems like a scientist to me, most scientists are humble in my opinion

mxs said:
Have you ever heard of this dude?

Tim Berners-Lee


I bet you have not .... as most people have not either. But most people know Google, right?
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NO, but upon further google, I've read he is the father of the WWW, lol, thats nuts.


I'll say one thing, academia doesn't get the recognition it deserves. How many ppl know just recently a few canadians received the Noble prize?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-nobel-medicine-idUSTRE79213M20111003
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