2011-10-13 13:47:00.099465+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Hmmm... Thought I'd said this here, but I guess not.
RT @genehack: Rob Pike reports on G+ that Dennis Ritchie has died: https://plus.google.com/u/0/10...09339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en
As @_Baylink on my twitter stream commented, you're reading this served from a machine running Unix written in C.
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#Comment Re: made: 2011-10-13 17:46:06.79525+00 by: Dan Lyke
"Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I’ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime."
This. Unix is elegant.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-10-14 12:53:29.432904+00 by: John Anderson
More from Rob Pike -- good background on the importance of C and UNIX (not probably needed for anybody here...)