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Dennis Ritchie, creator of C & Unix reported d-> 0

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Whiney Mac Fanboy

on Thursday October 13, @06:30AM

Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "The register & many others, are reporting on the death of Dennis Ritchie", confirmed by a google plus post by Rob Pike, a former colleague at Bell labs.

Dennis Ritchie was best known as co-creator of the Unix operating system (modern versions of which underpin most smart phones, Linux & OS X) and the creator of the powerful & elegant C programming language.

This is a truly sad day. The computing community has lost one of the giants, on who's shoulders so many who came after stood."
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Dennis Ritche dead at age 70-> 0

Submitted by pedantic bore on Thursday October 13, @06:29AM

pedantic bore writes "Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C and UNIX, former leader of the Computer Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, and winner of the ACM Turing Award, is reported dead at age 70.

Dennis Ritchie was one of the inventors who, without much fanfare and almost no publicity outside of the field, revolutionized operating systems and programming languages. His influence is ubiquitious; C and POSIX are the bedrock of nearly all modern computing platforms."
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Dennis Ritchie passed away-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, @06:26AM

An anonymous reader writes "I've recently learned that Dennis Ritchie has passed away. Where is the Slashdot love to one of the Unix creators?. Like it or not, Unix and it's programming language, C, has been the more influential pieces of software of all times.
R.I.P. Dennis, and thanks for all the semicolons."
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Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, @05:41AM

An anonymous reader writes "Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. [...]
The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+."
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Dennis Ritchie dies 0

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mvdwege

on Thursday October 13, @05:38AM

mvdwege writes "Rob Pike, long time collaborator, confirms on his Google+ account that Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language has died this morning. I learned my first C ages ago from the famous K&R book, and I'm sad to see another part of my computing youth pass away."

Dennis Ritchie dies after unknown illness-> 0

Submitted by Lonely Walker on Thursday October 13, @04:31AM

Lonely Walker writes "Haven't seen this posted on the site. There are multiple reports on the web about the death of Dennis Ritchie. Hopefully, Slashdot would be a place where people would appreciate his contributions.
http://memeburn.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-dies/"
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Dennis Ritchie has died. -> 0

Submitted by yorugua on Thursday October 13, @04:10AM

yorugua writes "As a long time Unix user, I'm suddenly out of words for this loss in the Tech World. RIP Dennis, and my condolences to his family."
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Comment: Re:Klono's Whiskers! (Score 1) 158

by Aussie on Tuesday May 17 2011, @10:58PM (#36162230) Attached to: Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun

That was my first thought, how can you discuss Science Fiction ray guns without mentioning E.E. Doc. Smith ? Those Lensmen had a ray/beam/field/etc for every eventuality. I still enjoy pulling his books out every coupla years.

Aussie ATMs Handing Out "Free" Cash-> 0

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aesoteric

on Tuesday March 01 2011, @01:44AM

aesoteric writes "Database issues at the one of Australia's Big 4 banks have spread to more than 40 automatic teller machines, allowing customers to withdraw "large amounts" of cash they don't actually have. Large queues have been reported at ATMs around Sydney as users tried to withdraw $1000s of dollars at a time. Emerging reports suggest the entire ATM network may need to be shut down to curb the run on machines."
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Britain Grants Request to Extradite Assange-> 0

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Thursday February 24 2011, @07:16AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes "The NY Times reports that a British court has ordered Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. His lawyers have seven days to appeal the ruling and immediately indicated that they would so. Judge Howard Riddle, in his ruling, said that allegations brought by two women qualified as extraditable offenses and that the warrant seeking Mr. Assange’s return to Sweden for questioning was valid. Judge Little says that if there have been abuses in Sweden, “the right place for these to be examined and remedied is in the Swedish trial system.”"
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