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• October 13, 2011 - And so it goes

Over the last week or so the computer industry has lost two giants/innovators. First being Steve Jobs. Nuff said on that one. Second is Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language and UNIX. I think the following comment by a reader of an article about Dennis Ritchie is an appropriate RIP for him:

#include
int main(int argc, char** argv).
{
...
fprintf(stdout, "Goodbye World!\n");.
exit(0);.
}

For those of you who cut your professional teeth in programming with C you know this is a play on the famous "Hello World!".

I learned C my last year of college in 1986 and it helped me get my first job in programming/testing at a commercial software company. I've used the language off and on over the years for various things (like LoadRunner web scripting). I have an original copy of "The C Programming Language" by Kerninghan & Ritchie buried somewhere in all my books.

As a tribute to both Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie I say thank you for your contributions, and for providing me with a career and livelyhood for the last 23 years. I tip my glass to you.

RIP.

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