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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: Dennis Ritchie
From:       Thomas de Grivel <billitch () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-11-25 2:54:19
Message-ID: 4ECF035B.3040306 () gmail ! com
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On 10/14/11 03:22, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote:
> Dennis Ritchie should be the patron saint of software development and
> engineering. :)

No matter how disgusting the notion of patron is to me, I feel Ada 
Lovelace would have to be considered too. She's not as freshly dead but 
is Den's father too. This is to put an end to the Jobs / Ritchie mise en 
abime.


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, OpenBSD Europe 
<misc@openbsdeurope.com>wrote:
>> On 13/10/11 11:32, Donald Reichert wrote:
>>
>>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>>
>>>> Datum: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:14:20 +0200
>>>> Von: David Coppa<dcoppa@gmail.com>
>>>> An: misc@openbsd.org
>>>> Betreff: Dennis Ritchie
>>>>
>>>   Today is a sad sad day :(
>>>> Rest in Peace.
>>>> Without you, we would never be here.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>> He died last weekend. RIP.
>>>
>>> #include<stdio.h>
>>>
>>> int main()
>>> {
>>> printf("goodbye, dad\n");
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>> I vote for the next release artwork tributing his work some way :-)

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