10 Comments

1. Sam Duncan says:
   October 14, 2011 at 5:21 pm

   I don’t think it would be besmirching Steve Jobs’s memory to say that Dennis Ritchie was vastly more influential. In fact, I don’t think Jobs would have disagreed.

   Ritchie might have.
2. CountingCats says:
   October 14, 2011 at 5:59 pm

   Two different types of influence.
3. Kevin B says:
   October 14, 2011 at 6:18 pm

   I shall dig out my dusty old copy of K&R and read a chapter or two.
4. Andrew Duffin says:
   October 14, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   What Kevin B said.

   We are not worthy, etc etc.

   RIP.
5. Chuckles says:
   October 14, 2011 at 7:51 pm

   Sam D,

   It’s the difference between the Engineering and Marketing departments perhaps?
6. NickM says:
   October 14, 2011 at 9:38 pm

   #include

   main()
   {
   for(;;)
   {
   printf (”Goodbye World!\n”);
   }
   }
7. NickM says:
   October 14, 2011 at 9:41 pm

   Sorry Dennis - didn’t format right in WP but then C was always a bit loose on formatting - I liked that! Other people’s C code can resemble the Dead Sea Scrolls.
8. CountingCats says:
   October 14, 2011 at 10:10 pm

   #include stdio.h

   main()
   {
   for(;;)
   {
   printf (”Goodbye World!\n”);
   }
   }

   Readability comes before accuracy.

   If it doesn’t work and you can’t read it you won’t get it to work. If it doesn’t work and you can read it, you can get it to work. C is a write only language only if the writer is a dickhead.

   Update: Shit, Nick is right. WP reformatted it.
9. X says:
   October 15, 2011 at 7:59 pm

   @Sam: well, without C the original Mac OS could not have been written.
10. David Gillies says:
    October 16, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Nah, original MacOS was assembler and Pascal. Current MacOS is Objective C, which I really like.