MadMongers

On 10/17/11 10:02 AM, david-delikat@usa.net wrote:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/kirk_kimmel/2011/10/perl-c-and-dr-dennis-ritchie.html

surely deserves the same attention as Steve Jobs...

Certainly had as much impact overall (a lot more, actually), but not to the end-user (or that the end user was aware of..)

Thanks for mentioning it, though, I hadn't seen he died.  I used my K&R a couple weeks ago.

jon

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I think you could safely argue that he deserves far more attention.

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