{"id":5640,"date":"2016-10-13T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2016-10-13T19:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:12:15","slug":"dennis-ritchie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Ritchie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet appears to be on fire with news that Dennis Ritchie has died. Folks, that was 5 years ago. How can you not know this? Ritchie was one our leading lights and his legacy is everywhere within our industry and even our world. <\/p>\n

The “news” appears to have been set off when Wired<\/a> reran a story of his death<\/a> from 2011. I don’t know if it was meant as a memorial or was just a mistake. Regardless, that’s no excuse for all these people posting about his death as if it just happened. I really don’t understand how some practitioners in our field can be so unaware that one of our leading icons died 5 years ago. Maybe they need to get out into the big blue room a little more. <\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b> [2016-10-13 Thu 19:01]<\/span><\/span>: C|Net has an article on this<\/a>. It’s astounding that serious tech figures like Om Malik, Sundar Pichai, and Craig Newmark didn’t know that Ritchie has been dead for 5 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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