Dennis Ritchie finally gets some recognition

[Mira Yurizaki]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/tfw-an-obituary-you-wrote-five-years-ago-goes-viral/

 

In October 12, 2011, the creator of C, Dennis Ritchie, passed away. I suppose since this was within a week of Steve Jobs' death, the man never really gotten much attention. But this is the guy who co-created the basis of modern day programming. It's probably harder to list widely used programming languages that didn't have some influence from C.

 

Oh well, at least the power of social media (according to the article) he's getting the recognition he deserves.

[qwertywarrior]

i thought u said Lionel Richie

.i was like lol what

[Beskamir]

Yeah it's unfortunate how those that truly deserve recognition rarely actually receive it. I think Dr. Spanswick (my 'brain and behavior' prof) put it best when talking about Mike the headless chicken, "You dedicate your life to studying the central nervous system and you get beaten by a fucking chicken".