Goodbye Dennis

[lforos]

On October 12, Dennis Ritchie passed away. In no medium is the topic discussed (although they keep talking about Steve Jobs...).

Dennis Ritchie is the "inventor" of the C programming language and co-inventor with Ken Thompson of, nothing more and nothing less, the Unix operating system. He is undoubtedly one of the fathers of computer science and, in my opinion, has had an impact several magnitudes greater in the history of technology than Jobs, although no one seems to remember Dennis.

Anyway, so in the name of those of us who started in serious programming with C and had the Kernighan & Ritchie as our bible, goodbye friend Dennis...

[cobito]

Well yes, I almost created a thread the other day, but I don't know what happened in the end.

It's curious how marketing has not only managed to sell Apple's products, but also the image of its creator (at least the creator of the concept). As I already commented in the Jobs thread, his achievements in the world of computing are undeniable, but they are limited only to that: marketing.

On the other hand, Ritchie invented nothing more and nothing less than the C language (which few do not know) and with it he developed Unix, the starting point for all alternatives to Windows with a certain audience in the market.

In short, this is what happens when you are not controversial and work "in the shadows", that in the end they remember and praise an "illusionist" and forget the one who does the "real" work.

[Nemo]

I believe that no death is less regrettable than another.
With Dennis Ritchie, we have lost a programming genius who laid the foundations of technology and computing at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, and with Steve Jobs, we lost a marketing genius and a conceptual guru of technology.
Without Dennis, Apple would possibly not exist (or would be different), but in part thanks to Apple's push, more Unix applications were developed.
Best regards