Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

[Mariano Vecchioli]

+1 to Codename Ritchie.

Mariano Vecchioli
wormintrude at gmail.com



On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 05:43:25PM -0400, mikel king wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:43:25 -0400
> > From: mikel king <mikel.king at olivent.com>
> > Subject: Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion
> > To: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
> > Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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> >
> >
> > On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> >
> > > With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants
> on whose
> > > shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think
> it would
> > > be proper to remember and celebrate his achievements.
>
>
>         both dennis's and ken's ... and for that matter the entire
>        bunch from murry hill.  somewhere in my jumble of books in
>        my True Bible, 'the c programming language' that i had
>        dennis autograph 20+ years ago.  in my NSHO, that book is
>        the best book every written. it's just one of dennis's
>        achievements[!]
>
>
> > >
> > > His contributions to the C language and the UNIX operating system are a
> > > legacy that few can match.
> > >
> > > Therefore I would like to propose that the FreeBSD project dedicate the
> > > upcoming 9.0 release in his memory.
> > >
> > > Alternatively, an tribute on the FreeBSD website would be fitting,
> wouldn't it?
> > >
> > > Roland
> > > --
> > > R.F.Smith
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> appreciated]
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> >
> >
> > I think this would be a fitting tribute...
>
>
>         hm.  given that ken finished up at berkeley in '69 and
>        '70, isn't it overdue to have at least a page that mentions
>        the BSD link to its origin and inspiration?
>
>
>        {sigh}
>
>        gary
>
>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mikel King
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