Two giants of computing who died in the same month!

This image from a facebook posting emphasized the importance of both Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie.

Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 8, 2011: inventor of C programming language

One of my regrets in life is not having to meet in person Dennis Ritichie, the developer of the C programmng language.



I will never forget the time I have to understand pointers (I suspect my instructor did not understand much too!). C is like more a friendlier assembly language in English! C++, Java may be more "in" these days, but they owe their success to the pioneering path blazed by C.