Dennis Ritchie passed away

Yassine · 10/12/11

alain · 10/12/11

RIP.

Let's see if this news gets as much attention

euroazn · 10/12/11

Whoa...

RIP

Yike Lu · 10/13/11

bansalmohit · 10/13/11

Abdel · 10/13/11

True genius, may he rest in peace.

Chapeau bas, l'artiste.

amanda.jayne · 10/13/11

@grimmelm James Grimmelmann

Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011). His pointer has been cast to void *; his process has terminated with exit code 0.

http://twitter.com/#!/grimmelm/status/124306628014112770

kevin_charlemagne · 10/13/11

Code:

//R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie
#include<stdio.h>
int main(){

printf("Goodbye, World.\n");
return 0;

}

DominiConnor · 10/14/11

He will be missed, it is something of a cliche but reading his book did genuinely change my life for the better and I am far from unique.

Andy Nguyen · 10/14/11

vincegata · 10/15/11

He was the man.

RIP

myampol · 10/18/11

He earned all his degrees at Harvard in the 1960s. Here's his obituary in the Harvard Crimson newspaper:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/17/dennis-ritchie-c-programming/

Sadly, the writer misspelled both "Turing" and "Kernighan"...