Thread: The Father of C has Died Dennis Richie

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    The Father of C has Died Dennis Richie

    I thought everyone should know. Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on - CNN.com
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    Thanks for spreading the news, but we already have a thread for this: Dennis M. Ritchie.

    *thread closed*
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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