[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Let us pause a moment in our daily occasions

[Bob Molyneux]

Not so famous as Steve Jobs, perhaps, but he might have made the world an 
even better place. Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) died on October 8. One obit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

His home page:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

Thanks from Popular Science:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/thank-you-dennis-ritchie-wi 
thout-whom-none-would-be-here

"Everything we've got -- Internet servers, telephone backbones, the 
microprocessor in the keyboard I'm using to type this -- emanates from 
Ritchie's work."

May he rest in peace.


Bob Molyneux
drdata at molyneux.com