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RIP Dennis Ritchie (Unix / C )
cit_k
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RIP Mr Ritchie, thank you for your massive contributions to the world.
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Its a case of
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Its a case of
main()
{
printf("goodbye, world\n");
}
Sadly, for one of the true geniuses of recent times, who was responsible for so much of todays work in computing. [greenhighlight]but it matters when the most senior politician in the land is happy to use language and examples that are simply not true.
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The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
and we should be deeply worried about that[/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)
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The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
and we should be deeply worried about that[/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)
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Yes. All those pointers to arrays and malloc'ing used to drive me insane though
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C ya later :T0
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RIP Indeed. At the same time Steve Jobs passes.
One is an essential creator of a corenerstone of all computing - the other produced portable trivia equipment (and seems somewhat unstable: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15400984)
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