Dennis Ritchie Has Died

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Sad. C is not used so much now, but once I needed, it never fails me. Thanks DMR. RIP.

You may be in an environment where one of the newer languages (C++, java,
perl, python, php...) is used, but over all C is still used a *lot*.
Each of the languages I just named as examples are implemented in it...

 

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:

sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?

not a native speaker...

bye

"is dead" describes the current state, "has died" describes the event.
So, this phrasing is used to express a feeling about his dying as a
recent event.

 

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Anoop Kammaran wrote:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YHBT.html

I'm rather sure it's meant as a quite funny reference to

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...oup:comp.lang.c&rnum=4&hl=en#465ede5dc776f39d

which, in turn, referes to

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/c1bcf3a324a678c9?hl=en#
Regards, Jens

 

[army1987]

--bks

May he rest in peace.

 

[Thomas David Rivers]

You may be in an environment where one of the newer languages (C++,
java,
perl, python, php...) is used, but over all C is still used a *lot*.
Each of the languages I just named as examples are implemented in it...

Well, "mainstream" media is finally picking up the story.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/


==========

"Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on"

The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won't match the river of praise that
spilled
out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.

And then some.

"When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that
was very
moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public
doesn't
even know who he is," says Rob Pike, the programming legend and current
Googler who spent 20 years working across the hall from Ritchie at
the famed
Bell Labs.

[...]
==========

Very nice article indeed...

- Dave Rivers -

 

[spinoza1111]

Well done!  Applause, applause.

--
But the Bush apologists hope that you won't remember all that. And they
also have a theory, which I've been hearing more and more - namely,
that President Obama, though not yet in office or even elected, caused the
2008 slump. You see, people were worried in advance about his future
policies, and that's what caused the economy to tank. Seriously.

    (Paul Krugman - Addicted to Bush)

Hi Kenny...just dropped by to commemorate Dennis' death since I have a
show today and later I'm joining a Hong Kong demonstration in support
of #occupywallstreet. I see where the Focus Nazis still are without
shame. Give my regards to Heathfield and Seebach.

 

[spinoza1111]

Bradley K. Sherman ha scritto:



sad news indeed. but why "has died" and not "is dead" ?

not a native speaker...

bye

The present perfect represents events that have "just occured". In
your example, the predicate adjective has an identical meaning.

In this connection note an oddity: that "to be born" has no active
voice and "to die" no passive. As Shakespeare observed, we come crying
hither to this great stage of fools, borne by she who bears, and
although as Shakespeare also observed, we must endure our going hence,
the language has us dying as an act. We may die, we might be killed,
but we may not "be died".

Or, as David Mamet in collaboration with Quentin Tarantino might have
written:

She: Who the **** is Zed?
He: Zed's fucking dead, baby, Zed's dead.

Replacing that team with Joseph Conrad and TS Eliot we obtain:

Mistah Kurtz he dead

 

[Bradley K. Sherman]

More from Rob Pike:
|
| I was warmly surprised to see how many people responded to
| my Google+ post about Dennis Ritchie's untimely passing.
| His influence on the technical community was vast, and it's
| gratifying to see it recognized. When Steve Jobs died there
| was a wide lament - and well-deserved it was - but it's
| worth noting that the resurgence of Apple depended a great
| deal on Dennis's work with C and Unix.
|
| The C programming language is quite old now, but still
| active and still very much in use. The Unix and Linux (and
| Mac OS X and I think even Windows) kernels are all C
| programs. The web browsers and major web servers are all in
| C or C++, and almost all of the rest of the Internet
| ecosystem is in C or a C-derived language (C++, Java), or a
| language whose implementation is in C or a C-derived
| language (Python, Ruby, etc.). C is also a common
| implementation language for network firmware. And on and on.
|
| And that's just C.
|
| Dennis was also half of the team that created Unix (the
| other half being Ken Thompson), which in some form or other
| (I include Linux) runs all the machines at Google's data
| centers and probably at most other server farms. Most web
| servers run above Unix kernels; most non-Microsoft web
| browsers run above Unix kernels in some form, even in many
| phones.
|
| And speaking of phones, the software that runs the phone
| network is largely written in C.
|
| But wait, there's more.
| ...
<https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts#101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY>

--bks

 

[luser- -droog]

<an eloquent testimonial of the anguish shared among even trolls>