Without Dennis Ritchie, we would not have C, nor Unix. Without C or Unix, we would not have Perl, and most of us would have totally different jobs.

Not to detrack from his contributions, but I've learned the truth in there is no stopping an idea whose time has come

Ritchie was in the right place at the right time to be the focal point for those rush of ideas into our world, but in his abscence, surely someone else would have come up with D, E, F or whatever, and the subsequent interpreted languages would have arose.

May Mr. Ritchie finally get to make the best use of his direct goto 

goto heaven;
heaven:

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

In reply to Re: RIP Dennis Ritchie by zentara
in thread RIP Dennis Ritchie by JavaFan

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