Death of an icon
One of my all time heroes died this past week at the age of 70. A man without whom modern coding would not exist, and yet news reports have missed this sad event. I sent the following email to NZStuff in the hope that some coverage will belatedly occur. The younger iOS generation should know about dmr and what he did for all of us. --------------------- Hi, There's been a lot of press coverage over the death of Steve Jobs, and yes, it's very sad and he was a great influence to the way we use technology and was one of my heroes purely because of his passion for IT, but an even greater influence on computing also passed away last week and there's been no mention of his passing. Dennis Ritchie, aka dmr, the inventor of the C programming language, co-creator of Unix and all round nice guy passed away on the 8th October. Without dmr there wouldn't have been anything for Steve Jobs or any other younger generation of developers and inventors to build new ideas on. Th