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Friday, October 14. 2011Dennis Ritchie - Inventor of C: In MemoriumPrinter FriendlyTrackbacks
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I felt it as quite a blow to hear of Richie's passing. He was a generous and gentle, tho also wickedly funny (see his intro to the Unix Haters Handbook) soul. I know people that worked with Ritchie, and it is eminently clear that a friend has been lost.
I hear your irony, and appreciate it somewhat, disagreeing only insofar as I find that all deaths diminish us.
Chris good point. Agree all deaths diminish us. I guess it's the overvaluation of some that irks me most.
Surely. There's some deep irony that there's more or less an "iSad" product line for those so in need to express their sadness that they feel the need to decorate their phones with pictures of a visibly ill man. (Visit DealExtreme, and look at recent products for a whole lineup of such stuff; on some, he looks mighty ill.)
I'm a little hopeful that the people that are in the habit of actually creating computing artifacts will take a poke back at pieces of Ritchie's legacy. We could use some improvements to the infrastructure we're using, and heading back towards the simplicity and elegance that his work evidenced would be a very right direction. |
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