Dennis Ritchie, 70, Dies, Programming Trailblazer

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74 points·rinesh··16 comments

I'm sure everyone reading this is already aware that he's passed, but it would be worth putting [2011] in the title should anyone unaware of Ritchie's enormous legacy discover this and miss the date.

But as an aside, it doesn't feel like 5 years, does it?

I didn't even know he died! I am quite sad now.

Steve Jobs doesn't serve as a benchmark? It doesn't, but... it does.

>I'm sure everyone reading this is already aware that he's passed

apparently not... http://imgur.com/a/C5vTx

Yeah, I even remember the HN discussion and black banner from then, but when someone posted it on Facebook mistakenly, I just posted it to twitter, and technically it is correct so didn't delete.

Needs a (2011) in the title. He passed away five years ago today.

For a brief moment, I thought it was the other C guy.

Same.

Unix serves as a foundation of iOS?

Didn't know that!

the filesystem wasn't a clue? ;-)

Darwin, the open-source operating system UI underneath both macOS and iOS, is based on FreeBSD and the XNU kernel, plus some NextStep stuff. And of course FreeBSD is based on BSD, which was a patch set derived from the original AT&T Unix.

It's amazing that in 2016, the two major consumer computing platforms are BSD and Linux, and Windows in struggling to catch up.

Depends on how you slice it. Windows still dominates the personal computer market.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxPyNZF3Q

>And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market.

I'm working on C as we speak.

R.I.P. Legend.

Old news???

R.I.P.

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