[geeks] RIP, Dennis Ritchie

[Shannon]

On Oct 14, 2011, at 04:50 , Joost van de Griek wrote:

> On 2011-10-13 16:23, David Eisner wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Jonathan Patschke<jp at celestrion.net>
wrote:
>>> >  This evening Rob Pike announced via his Google+ account that Dennis
>>> >  Ritchie passed away this weekend:
>>
>> He was only 0x46.   :^(
>
> Stuck a quick "in memoriam" comment into a bit of C code I was working on,
yesterday. Here's hoping it makes it past review for future programmers to
find and maybe learn a bit of history.

>From a chat channel I was in the other nite:

Dennis Ritchie is dead, but the memory we allocated for him is still there.



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