R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie.
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god@earth$ ./dennis-ritchie
Creating UNIX...
Designing C Programming Language...
Accepting Turing Award...
Please wait...
^Z
[1] Stopped ./dennis-ritchie
god@earth$ bg
[1]+ ./dennis-ritchie &
god@earth$ sleep 883008000
god@earth$ kill %1
[1]+ Terminated ./dennis-ritchie
god@earth$ logout
Creating UNIX...
Designing C Programming Language...
Accepting Turing Award...
Please wait...
^Z
[1] Stopped ./dennis-ritchie
god@earth$ bg
[1]+ ./dennis-ritchie &
god@earth$ sleep 883008000
god@earth$ kill %1
[1]+ Terminated ./dennis-ritchie
god@earth$ logout
Whew! For a moment I thought it was Lionel Ritchie, that musical genius without whom we'd still be listening to heavy metal!
RIP.
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
throwingknife: RIP.
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
I'm not a programmer. Is this a cause of buffer overflow and crap?
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
I'm not a programmer. Is this a cause of buffer overflow and crap?
Unix co-creator? This guy co-created downloading free shit!
ambition chicken: I'm not a programmer. Is this a cause of buffer overflow and crap?
Pretty much, or at least one possible cause. C is notorious for not enforcing the size of strings or arrays. It'll let you try to put 20 characters into a character array that has enough room for 10. The extra characters just go into whatever else is there, whatever it is.
I remember years ago, my department got a new head of MIS. She went around meeting everyone, and asked what I was doing. I mentioned that I was programming some stuff in C. She asked me how that was spelled.
I got a different job soon after that.
Pretty much, or at least one possible cause. C is notorious for not enforcing the size of strings or arrays. It'll let you try to put 20 characters into a character array that has enough room for 10. The extra characters just go into whatever else is there, whatever it is.
I remember years ago, my department got a new head of MIS. She went around meeting everyone, and asked what I was doing. I mentioned that I was programming some stuff in C. She asked me how that was spelled.
I got a different job soon after that.
He's no Steve Jobs.
Probably because the things he produced are unglamorous and the basis of almost all modern computing. Decidedly unmagical, but fuck magic- we need science.
Probably because the things he produced are unglamorous and the basis of almost all modern computing. Decidedly unmagical, but fuck magic- we need science.
throwingknife: I remember years ago, my department got a new head of MIS. She went around meeting everyone, and asked what I was doing. I mentioned that I was programming some stuff in C. She asked me how that was spelled.
throwingknife: RIP.
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
I was thinking of a nested strtok. But yeah. The gods of the golden age are starting to die.
Was thinking of posting some code that writes beyond the allocated length of a string or malloc a limited number of years.
I was thinking of a nested strtok. But yeah. The gods of the golden age are starting to die.
mike.refreshment: He's no Steve Jobs.
Probably because the things he produced are unglamorous and the basis of almost all modern computing. Decidedly unmagical, but fuck magic- we need science.
That almost reads like an exaggeration. However, it's almost an understatement.
Probably because the things he produced are unglamorous and the basis of almost all modern computing. Decidedly unmagical, but fuck magic- we need science.
That almost reads like an exaggeration. However, it's almost an understatement.
Now he's being less visible than Steve Jobs in heaven.
kill -9 dennis-ritchie
mike.refreshment: Arguments must be process or job IDs
$
OK, be pedantic.
>killall -e -s SIGTERM dennis-ritchie
$
OK, be pedantic.
>killall -e -s SIGTERM dennis-ritchie
void main(char[] argv, char[] argc) {} is the worst!
fatsean: void main(char[] argv, char[] argc) {} is the worst!
except is actually:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
return 0;
}
except is actually:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
return 0;
}
\pours out a bit of a 0x28
Who?
twitch osx: Who?
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
quinblake: Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
Ahh.. ok.
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
Ahh.. ok.
twitch osx: Who?
The father of UNIX and the C language. Derivatives of which run your iphone and mac.
His stuff runs in a vast, vast majority of devices in the world, and will continue to do so for many decades (centuries?!?) to come.
The father of UNIX and the C language. Derivatives of which run your iphone and mac.
His stuff runs in a vast, vast majority of devices in the world, and will continue to do so for many decades (centuries?!?) to come.
dizzysaurus: The father of UNIX and the C language. Derivatives of which run your iphone and mac.
His stuff runs in a vast, vast majority of devices in the world, and will continue to do so for many decades (centuries?!?) to come.
Only until 2032. Then it all blows up.
His stuff runs in a vast, vast majority of devices in the world, and will continue to do so for many decades (centuries?!?) to come.
Only until 2032. Then it all blows up.
l.darte: Only until 2032. Then it all blows up.
2038, and only in systems with a 32 bit time - which could be a lot of embedded stuff.
2038, and only in systems with a 32 bit time - which could be a lot of embedded stuff.
quinblake: Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
RIP, Ken.
Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of UNIX alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages.
RIP, Ken.
cranky bastard: [image removed]
RIP, Ken.
cranky bastard: What the fuck... RIP Dennis.
i blame a buffer overflow
We're all a little segment violated right now.
RIP, Ken.
cranky bastard: What the fuck... RIP Dennis.
i blame a buffer overflow
We're all a little segment violated right now.
quinblake: We're all a little segment violated right now.
That must be it - I'm consumed with grief, buried deep in my swap file.
That must be it - I'm consumed with grief, buried deep in my swap file.
Oh, and when does RMS claim credit for inventing Dennis Ritchie?
Also a very good tribute:
"By creating C, Ritchie gave birth to the concept of open systems. C was developed so they could port Unix to any computer, and so that programs written on one platform (and the skills used to develop them) could be easily transferred to another.
In that way, Ritchie has shaped our world in much more fundamental ways than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates have. What sets him apart from them is that he did it all not in a quest for wealth or fame, but just out of intellectual curiosity. Unix and C were the product of pure research"
"By creating C, Ritchie gave birth to the concept of open systems. C was developed so they could port Unix to any computer, and so that programs written on one platform (and the skills used to develop them) could be easily transferred to another.
In that way, Ritchie has shaped our world in much more fundamental ways than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates have. What sets him apart from them is that he did it all not in a quest for wealth or fame, but just out of intellectual curiosity. Unix and C were the product of pure research"
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