RIP Dennis Ritchie
I believe this deserves a front page post for a while.
Rest in Peace Dennis Ritchie.
For those who don't know who Dennis is, he's one of the Co-Founders of Unix which Every Linux Distro and Mac OS-X owes a LOT to, as without Unix the face of the computing world would be VERY different or possibly non-existant. Dennis was also one of the Pioneers in the programming language C which he was also the Co-Author to "The Definitive Bible to C Programming"
My hat off to Dennis and the other innovators that make our world the way it is today, without Unix/C and it's subsequent technologies it had spawned off Our MMOs/Games/This Website may not exist at all.
Submitted by Pyro on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 07:56
RIP, Dr. Ritchie. You laid the groundwork and foundation for what so much of the world today knows and relies upon, often without even realizing it. A true titan.
I agree, Pyro. He shaped the coding habits of MANY of us. I pulled my K&R off the shelf in honor the other day.