Dennis Ritchie, computer pioneer, dead at 70

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

The guy who codesigned Unix and the C programming language dies at the age of 70.

Rob Pike confirms.

[cardinal_fang]

printf ("
");

[Typo_Knig]

Goodbye, world.

[VunderBob]

Off to the celestial bit bucket…

#UNDEFINE Ritchie

[Eonwe]

Sure, well, he’s no Steve Jobs, though.

[Derleth]

@Eonwe

Sure, well, he’s no Steve Jobs, though.

Steve Jobs wouldn’t have been Steve Jobs without Ritchie paving the way for him.

[Small_Clanger]

return 0;
}

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

@Eonwe

Sure, well, he’s no Steve Jobs, though.

Unix + C dwarfs anything that Jobs did about 10 times over

[robert_columbia]

<tries to dereference a pointer to Ritchie and crashes the application>

[muldoonthief]

–genius_ctr;

[Arnold_Winkelried]

I’ll have to pull out my old K&R in memory.

[MysteryFellow63427]

Pretty sure the Steve Jobs snark was a joke.

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

#include “rip.h”
-D/a;

[Scuba_Ben]

~> cat ritchie > /dev/null