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Re: Relaunching: RIP (and this time not) Steve Jobs - Dennis, your book is the bible to many!



Funny that, thanks Rainer. I still have my copies of K&R's book, and "The Elements of C Programming Style", as well as my yellow UNIX C reference. And I haven't programmed actively in over 20 years - but when testing something involving C language, these books assist in telling testing/programming folks more than "It died on line 7"... :)

-----Original Message----- From: Rainer Straschill
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:52 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Relaunching: RIP (and this time not) Steve Jobs - Dennis, your book is the bible to many!

mark francombe schrieb:
Possibly because everyone has heard of Steve Jobs, and I have no idea who Dennis Ritchie is

LOL

Sorry.. enlighten me?
Dennis Ritchie was one of the inventors of the C programming language
and of UNIX. Also, he wrote the "C  bible" , the book "The C Programming
Language" (together with Kerninghan - the book is colloquially known as
"the K&R").

Like e.g. John Bardeen, Ritchie is one of those guys that nobody knows,
but whose inventions were key enablers for a lot of stuff - including
the stuff Steve Jobs is famous for.

         Rainer

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