[GRLUG] A little more

[Bob Kline]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie_obituary/page2.html

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Looking back on this, Ritchie downplayed his role in the computing
revolution he sparked. Talking to *The Economist* in 2004, he
suggested<http://www.economist.com/node/2724348> that
many of the improvements he came up with while developing C "looked like a
good thing to do", implying anyone in the same place would have done the
same thing.
Stroustrup calls it

However, Bjarne Stroustrup, who joined Bell Labs as a new graduate after
Ritchie – where he designed and implemented C++ – saw it differently. "If
Dennis had decided to spend that decade on esoteric math, Unix would have
been stillborn," Stroustrup said.
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And there would be no Linux.

But there would be windoz...

  -- Bob

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