Igor Delovski Board

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Programming-Designs.com The Dennis Ritchie Interview

"An interview with Dennis Ritchie famous for the founding of the C
programming language and the co-inventor of the Unix operating
system."

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Slashdot: Linux Journal Interview With Brian Kernighan

"Linux Journal has an interesting interview with Brian Kernighan where he
talks about AWK, AMPL and how he had nothing to do with the creation of C."

[delovski]

Ladies and Gentlemen, The K&R:




The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie

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Brian Kernighan Wikiquote:

1. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,
if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart
enough to debug it."

2. "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming"

Conclusion: Keep it simple!

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Dennis M. Ritchie Home Page

[Ike]

Russ Cox: B Languages

"There is an old story that at Bell Labs there were arguments over whether
the successor to C should be called D (following the alphabet) or P (following
the letters in BCPL) and that Bjarne Stroustroup ended the argument by
choosing the name C++ instead.

In Larry Wall's 1999 talk “Perl, the first postmodern computer language,” he
said that Perl was the true successor to C, having taken both of the remaining
letters from BCPL as its conventional script extension."

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Wikipedia: setuid and setgid are Unix access rights flags.

"The setuid bit was invented by Dennis Ritchie. His employer, AT&T, applied
for a patent in 1972; the patent was granted in 1979 as patent number
4,135,240 "Protection of data file contents". The patent was later placed in
the public domain."

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UnixTree - Very early C compilers and language

"As described in the C History paper, 1972-73 were the truly formative years
in the development of the C language: this is when the transition from typeless
B to weakly typed C took place, mediated by the (Neanderthal?) NB language,
of which no source seems to survive. It was also the period in which Unix was
rewritten in C."

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ComputerWorld - Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a re-
volutionary OS

"After batting around some ideas for a new system, Thompson wrote the fi-
rstversion of Unix, which the pair [Thompson & Dennis Ritchie] would conti-
nue to develop over the next several years with the help of colleagues Doug
McIlroy, Joe Ossanna and Rudd Canaday."

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drdobbs.com - Interview with Ken Thompson

"When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got
started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided
that we hated C++. [laughter]"

[Ike]

reddit - Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

"Each of us has a return value, but only very few of us are able to know
what the return value we pass back is when our run-time ends and we
hand ourselves over to the system."

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reddit - Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

"My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough
to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat. My graduate school
experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be an expert in
the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural languages better
than functional ones."

[Ike]

r - Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson. Not specific to C, but I figured everyone here would be interested in it.

"In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system
along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the
operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing
Award. He now works at Google."