that&#39;s a great orbituary<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:04, Bernard Mwagiru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmwagiru@gmail.com">bmwagiru@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">“It’s not the actual programming that’s interesting,” he(Ritchie) once remarked. “It’s what you can accomplish with the end results.” </span><div>


<font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Amen.</span></font></div>


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</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Chris Kiagiri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ck@google.com" target="_blank">ck@google.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div>

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<div><br></div>Many of us have probably read lots of obituaries and articles about Steve Jobs since his recent death, but not nearly as much about these two.<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">The obituary of the week in <i>The Economist</i> is for Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy.</span><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">




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<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21536536" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204)" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21536536</a></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">




<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">A very nice read.  Both men get the kudos they deserve.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">




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