Surprisingly, no one has posted about it in this news-
group which is *the* one for programming under Unix:
Dennis M. Ritchie, together with Ken Thompson one of
the "fathers" of Unix, the creator of C and co-author
(with Brian Kernighan) of probably one of the best
programming books ever, "The C Programming Language",
has died.

I think not only we as Unix (and C) programmers owe him
a real lot. There are very few people whose work in a
positive sense that much influenced my life - and rather
likely that of thousands and thousands of others - as his.
Learning and using C and Unix has been and still is an
immense source of fun to me.

My thoughts are with his family and friends.

                     Best regards, Jens
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