RIP DMR
October 13, 2011 12:49 PM   Subscribe

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the Unix operating system, winner of the Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, National Medal of Technology, and the Japan Prize, has died.

Also, of course, he was co-author (with Brian Kernighan) of the famous K&R book, The C Programming Language. This is someone truly worthy of our grief.
posted by Crabby Appleton (8 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- jessamyn



 
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posted by schmod at 12:50 PM on October 13, 2011


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posted by benzenedream at 12:51 PM on October 13, 2011


Double.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:52 PM on October 13, 2011


Double (and waiting for the red box of death to show up as I've never seen it)
posted by morganw at 12:52 PM on October 13, 2011


Double.
posted by cgc373 at 12:52 PM on October 13, 2011


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What a career. Damn.
posted by everichon at 12:52 PM on October 13, 2011


/bin/done
posted by Abiezer at 12:52 PM on October 13, 2011 [3 favorites]


He's got a way to go before he catches up to James Brown.
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:53 PM on October 13, 2011


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