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Dennis Ritchie died yesterday
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It's funny that just about every new language out there seems to be based upon C. One way or another, we all owe a lot to him. I'd guess he - and a lot of people of his ilk - will never get the credit they deserve. Englebart, Berners Lee etc. for how they've contributed to our lives and how we interact and work.
I agree, C is the perfect language. It's the one I studied growing up, then C++, Pascal and now C# for the last 10 years. I loved the C syntax then and now. But I don't like Objective-C which is a bastardized thing.
Careful, you're giving me a reason to argue. You wont like KnightWRX when I argue.
I consider C++ to be the bastardized language, following neither of its supposed paradigms properly. Objective-C has a polish that's hard to describe.
C is interesting to say the least. It got nearly everything right for a procedural programming language, sans proper string manipulation libraries.
I first learned C from his book. RIP
Me too. I still have a 20 year old copy of K&R lying around somewhere.
I always loved C. Never did like C++ and Java.
This thread made me realize that I have a never-used-since-college copy of The C Programming Language - Second Edition Copyright © 1988,1978 on my shelf.
I love this from the Publication Data page in the front, simply for the nostalgia factor:
I initially studied C from those Osborne books in the 80s. Loved pointer arithmetic, not anymore. Too busy making useful apps and stuff to worry about [autorelease] crap.
I don't know how to code in C, but I do know how to code in it's next step: C++
Thank you Mr. Ritchie.
Code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
cout << "Goodbye World" << endl;
return 0;
}Thank you Mr. Ritchie.
Not forgetting about 60% of the servers in the world that help drive the world wide web. And that little NAS box many of us have in our homes/small businesses. And supercomputers. What he created has certainly affected all our lives indirectly in a very big way. He didn't help create nice shiny mobile phones and pretty laptops though, so then again he can't be that important
RIP
Wow, I just glanced at the C Programming Language book on my shelf last night... the first edition no less. Got my first taste of C as part of a teen science program at Bell Labs in Holmdel NJ in the late 70's.
Dennis Ritchie, I thank you for the foundation you helped to create!
Dennis Ritchie, I thank you for the foundation you helped to create!
Same here. There was a simple elegance to the C language that was lost with the advent of C++
Not really. My first language was assembler, so I'm Ok with procedural stuff (and I don't program much these days anyway).
Anyhow, you can program kind of OO style in C... slap some pointers to functions in your structs and away you go!
Not really. My first language was assembler, so I'm Ok with procedural stuff (and I don't program much these days anyway).
Anyhow, you can program kind of OO style in C... slap some pointers to functions in your structs and away you go!
same here, my first language was assembler as well. First MASM from microsoft, then for the PDP11 (an old dec mini-computer)
Ahh the old days
I haven't opened the book in years but it still has a place of honor on my bookshelf.
same here, my first language was assembler as well. First MASM from microsoft, then for the PDP11 (an old dec mini-computer)
Kids these days don't know how good they have it!
Although I do find the enormous libraries that languages like Java has pretty dull. It was much more fun writing directly to output devices and the screen.
Taught myself 6502 assembler on the Acorn Electron when I was a kid. I'm sure I can still remember the 13 addressing modes.
Dennis Ritchie plays a prank on his boss, Nobel prize winner Arno Penzias, with help from Penn and Teller.
John McCarthy died October 23
We lost another computing pioneer: John McCarthy, who developing the LISP programming language, did research on human intelligence and artificial intelligence, and won multiple prizes including the National Medal of Science.
See MacRumors thread.
We lost another computing pioneer: John McCarthy, who developing the LISP programming language, did research on human intelligence and artificial intelligence, and won multiple prizes including the National Medal of Science.
See MacRumors thread.