Truthfully, I clicked on this topic because I did not know who Dennis Ritchie is. Now that I know, I’m ashamed to have not known
RIP :’(
It’s strange. When I started that noteworthy people thread my first thought was of Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson, but I sorta wanted to stick to individual contributions…even though very few are truly individual efforts. I’m certainly going to toast Ritchie this evening.
Ah, now that really is a great loss to computer science.
Cas 
+1
this
That’s a bummer.
wow, apparently I was not paying attention when I did my Computer programming reading… Cuase I even took notes that C was made by Dennis ritchie, and yet I had no idea who he was when I saw this.
He died a few days ago. Great guy. I assume even Java would not exist without him. In Belgium, some media spoke about his death but not really in France.
You did ?
LOL!
I guess we are talking to “Zombie Julien” now
he has some credits left
hmm, I must have missed that, but that makes sense sinse I don’t watch local belgian tv ever 
Oops sorry. I’m alive, it was a spelling mistake or maybe a Freudian slip.
this was mentioned a couple of days ago on some podcast someone who was giving a ride to me was listening to.
Basically the guys said that dennis made computers for real people who did real work. And Jobs made computers for hippies.
[quote]dennis made computers for real people who did real work. And Jobs made computers for hippies.
[/quote]
LOL!! That’s funny, but true.
Apple II & NeXT.
Oh yeah, and DTP & Art for many many years was pretty much mac. Stuff like that makes great sound bites, but aren’t very realistic.