Re: [XForms] Dennis Ritchie is dead

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 10/13/2011 09:33 PM, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> |
> | Maybe by the time of the C0X standard, things will be pinned
> | down well enough that it will become possible actually to
> | write a TCP/IP stack, or conceivably an entire operating
> | system in C. One might even imagine that it runs on several
> | different machine architectures.  A hope for the new milennium.
> |
> |       Dennis
>
> While never having met him that makes it obvious to me that
> he must have been a very unassuming person with an admirable
> sense of humour.
>                             Best regards, Jens
Oh, that's just hilarious.  In 1999, a larger fraction of the 
IT/Software world would have known who
  he was, and why that comment was hilarious.  Thanks for that!

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Marcus Leech
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Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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