Death of a REAL computing giant

[Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp]

With all the fuss (deservedly or not) surrounding the death of Steve Jobs … The death of a “real” computing giant (Dennis M. Ritchie) seems to have gone fairly unnoticed.

@ars technica

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest. Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.

Dennis Ritchie: the giant whose shoulders we stand on

It’s impossible to overstate the impact the C programming language has had on modern computing … and that’s without even mentioning UNIX

So long Dennis, and thanks for all you did for us

[BkS]

Read this on OMG! Ubuntu! the other day. Thanks DMR for everything you’ve done!