12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
11:35 p.m.
On 10/12/2011 11:08 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:05:39PM -0700, Ian King
wrote:
A friend of his and mine on G+ posted this:
Barry Shein - I'm personally saddened by this news. I've known Dennis
for a long time. Before I was involved in Usenix etc he would drop by at
Boston University where I was a grad student, he was a good friend of
Professor Joyce Friedman there, they knew each other when they were in
grad school at Harvard so we'd all go out.
I remember a couple of years later I got roped into doing a presentation
at DECUS, my first computer conference, and Dennis was also there for
the recognition of the 15th anniversary of the Unix operating system.
Both of us pretty much didn't know anyone there so we hung out and found
dinner etc.
Over the years we'd run into each other at Usenix and hang out,
occasionally exchange email particularly on how dopey something was like
some technical flame fest on usenet or some mailing list.
When I founded The World in 1989 he sent an email message to
msgs at world.std.com which meant it posted so that everyone logging in
would see it. something we actually allowed back then!:
From uunet!research.att.com!dmr Tue Oct 17 03:35:50 1989
Subject: printf
"Hello, world.std.com!\n"
Dennis Ritchie
---
He will be missed.
Jobs died - that was a shame. With Ritchie's
passing, I'm truly saddened to my core. -- Ian
Aye! Rest in peace DMR.
I took the time to find my favourite snippet of C-code. I think someone
on this list introduced me to it. Put this in main() and compile:
for(int i=0;i<14;i++)
putchar(i["hello world\n"]);
Not very complex, but figuring out how it works i fun :-)
Do you have a favourite c construct? Do share! (even ioccc entries
allowed)
Regards,
Pontus