Re: Real world OCP

On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Sarah Satterthwaite wrote:
> Gregory Conron wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > There is something inherently wrong with the world when Bill Gates is a
> > famous billionaire and Dennis Ritchie lives in relative obscurity.
>
> Who is Dennis Ritchie? Neither my husband or I have heard of him.

Briefly, he co-created C with Brian Kernighan, worked with Ken Thompson to develop Unix at Bell labs, and is currently working on Plan 9

A quick blurb (amongst many pages returned by google) is at http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/ritchie.html

Cheers,
GC

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There is something inherently wrong with the world when Bill Gates is a
famous billionaire and Dennis Ritchie lives in relative obscurity.