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

[David Fiander]

And as evidence that he was more than us mere mortals, he did most of his
best work using the line editor "ed".

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 18:09, Bob Molyneux <drdata at molyneux.com> wrote:

> 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<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391>
>
> Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Dennis_Ritchie<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie>
>
> His home page:
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/**who/dmr/<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<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
>
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