13 Oct
2016
13 Oct
'16
11:43 a.m.
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has passed away.
:(
Paul
1:28 p.m.
Yes. I should have double checked.
Apologies top all who entered a second stage of grieving.
Paul
On 13 Oct 2016 07:11, "Dave Horsfall" <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Paul Osborne wrote:
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has
passed away.
Five years ago, actually.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
12:04 p.m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie says this is from 2011...
Warner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Paul Osborne <pao(a)mogwog.org> wrote:
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has passed
away.
:(
Paul
12:04 p.m.
Wired is currently listing the 2011 article reporting the death of
Dennis Ritchie as the second most popular one. dmr left this world of
transient bits exactly five years ago.
On 13/10/2016 08:43, Paul Osborne wrote:
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has passed
away.
:(
Paul
8:54 p.m.
I think of Dennis almost daily, maybe because I program in C daily.
I miss him. I would always seek him out at conferences for a chat and get his opinion on
things. The power of his mind and his creative powers were exceeded only by his
gentlemanliness. He was that rare combination of qualities, high functioning theoretical
and practical, architect and builder, designer and coder. I learned to truly program from
a combination of reading Dennis and Ken’s code (I can tell them apart) and reading Brian’s
prose.
At SouthSuite our Plan 9 authentication server is named “dmr.”
Brantley Coile
http://coraid.com
On Oct 13, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Diomidis Spinellis
<dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
Wired is currently listing the 2011 article reporting the death of Dennis Ritchie as the
second most popular one. dmr left this world of transient bits exactly five years ago.
On 13/10/2016 08:43, Paul Osborne wrote:
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has
passed away.
:(
Paul
7:36 p.m.
Paul,
As you now realize, Dennis left us 5 years ago after a long illness. The
Labs had a wonderful memorial that I was lucky enough to be able to
participate. The theme of the event was "Simply Genius." My words are
that he was a remarkable person and I'm so glad to have known him.
BTW: I suspect your mistaking of the timing of his demise as being more
recent would have made him smile. Just as he did when he discussed
Harvard never actually conferring his PhD due to a bureaucratic issue (a
number of people have tried to get this corrected even after setting up a
chair in honor but so far I do not believe the administration has relented).
Anyway - I agree that he was simply a genius. We all lost a great man and
magnificent human being when he left us, and I miss talking to him.
Clem
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Paul Osborne <pao(a)mogwog.org> wrote:
Wired is reporting this morning that Dennis has passed
away.
:(
Paul
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