Dennis Ritchie September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011

[Bruce Clement]

I only heard about this today, but Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C
programming language & co-inventor of the Unix operating system has died.

His influence on today's operating software is large.

Linux, MacOS, GNU and the BSD operating systems are written in C and
direct descendants of the Unix design and API, while many other other
operating systems in use today, including Windows, were heavily influenced
by Unix.

Windows is largely written in C, and C++ (Originally C With Objects) is used
as the basis of other operating systems such as Nokia's Symbian.

Thank you Dennis.
--
Bruce Clement

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[Ryan McCoskrie]

Post by Bruce Clement
I only heard about this today, but Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C
programming language & co-inventor of the Unix operating system has died.
His influence on today's operating software is large.

Before hedied I was hoping that there might be a sudden upsurge of interest
around his post-unix OS Plan9 "From user space". From what I recall Plan9 does
away with the need for a super user, makes the file system layout user-specific
and is generally less main-frame centric than Unix.


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[Jaco]

Post by Ryan McCoskrie
Before hedied I was hoping that there might be a sudden upsurge of interest
around his post-unix OS Plan9 "From user space".

Heard there's an Android port in the works:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/if-it-aint-broke-break-it-inferno-environment-ported-to-android.ars


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[Cliff Pratt]

Post by Ryan McCoskrie

Post by Bruce Clement
I only heard about this today, but Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the
C programming language& co-inventor of the Unix operating system
has died.
His influence on today's operating software is large.

Before hedied I was hoping that there might be a sudden upsurge of
interest around his post-unix OS Plan9 "From user space". From what I
recall Plan9 does away with the need for a super user, makes the file
system layout user-specific and is generally less main-frame centric
than Unix.

"Mainframe centric"?

Cheers,

Cliff

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