5th Anniversary: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies

Note that this was a week after Steve Jobs died, so there was some resentment that Ritchie, who had at least the same effect on computing as Jobs did, wasn't getting the attention he deserved. Wouldn't mind seeing a retrospective of his life with the 5-year anniversary of his death as a newspeg.

Here's something from last year: http://www.zdnet.com/article/without-dennis-ritchie-there-wo...

This sentence[1] from his website always makes me chuckle:

Although my professional truck-driving career was brief, I did learn enough to do a nearly perfect double-clutch with a non-synchromesh transmission, while driving up a hill on a forest track, carrying a bunch of kids in the back of a dumptruck--the tippable, flat-bed kind, not one designed to squash garbage.

He left us too early.

[1]https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherlives.html

5 years ago - 10/8/11

(2011)