Saturday, October 15, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Dennis, C, Unix and Companies…

_56011976_kenthompsonanddennisritchiewithbillclintonPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-10-15]: Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of Unix and the C programming language has passed away [source: BBC News]. Every time pioneers pass away, big companies come into their place and make the world a worst place. And maybe as in the case of cars, computers will one day become black boxes we will just buy from multinational companies without knowing how to program them… It is in our hand to disprove that pessimistic prediction.

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