One of the best among us has died

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en

A little over forty years ago, a few guys decided to salvage a project that had been abandoned by AT&T Bell Labs, GE, and MIT. Among them was a researcher who had just recently obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard. That project, originally known as "Unics" (a pun on its predecessor, Multics), is better known today as UNIX. That man was known as Dennis Ritchie.

It has now been confirmed that Ritchie, one of the two greats who created the C programming language and a key player in the development of UNIX, has passed away. Known to many in the tech world as one of the fathers of modern computing, Ritchie's work continues to influence the direction of technological development even today. All of the common operating systems use C in some form, and many (especially Linux and Mac OS X, but even Windows to a degree) have their roots in UNIX.

I urge everyone to take a moment to pay your respects to a man who modern technology owes everything and who, I'm proud to say, was one of my personal heroes. Farewell, you magnificent man.

... Oh my god, I'm sad now.

Thanks for telling us. We wouldn't be typing this without him.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
for (;;)
{
printf("Goodnight, dmr/n");
}
return (0);
}

I think I can tighten up your code a little.

int main(void)

{
printf("Goodnight, dmr/n");
}

return (0);

It's sad to see the loss of such a visionary and one who has truly changed the world. May he have everyone's respects.

(=Nemesis=) said:

I think I can tighten up your code a little.

int main(void)

{
printf("Goodnight, dmr/n");
}

return (0);

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Warning: printf not declared

It's good convention to #include the standard header and not just let the compiler shoot out errors.

And that /n should be a \n.

Also, you printf folk are silly. That line is just going to get optimized by the compiler into puts anyway.

Omitting the return is fine here, though I don't do it. Personal style.

When I first read the title I thought someone who frequented this particular forum died.

His death was at a bad time though since most people were still crying over Jobs's death. Come to think of it, there are still a lot crying over his death.