Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language has died.

[BACnet]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-201...language-dies/

My hat's off to him, both for his development of C, but also for his work co-developing Unix. The derivatives of his work would include Linux/iOS/Android/Java and countless more technologies we all take for granted.

Here's to you, Dennis

[digo]

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/c..._at_70/c2r2l5o

"Each of us has a return value, but only very few of us are able to know what the return value we pass back is when our run-time ends and we hand ourselves over to the system." - TheFloorIsNowBacon

[garya505]

A sad day indeed. I cut my teeth on C back in 1985.