{"id":3860,"date":"2011-10-13T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:09:58","slug":"dennis-ritchie-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/dennis-ritchie-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Ritchie, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2011\/10\/12\/DMR\">Tim Bray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2011\/10\/12\/DMR\"><p>It&rsquo;s hard to believe that there was a time when any of these weren&rsquo;t conventional wisdom, but there was such a time. Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I&rsquo;ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to take anything away from <a href=\"http:\/\/cm.bell-labs.com\/who\/dmr\/\">Ritchie<\/a>, but Unix got so much right and was so successful that it created a bit of a monoculture, with even some of the bad ideas becoming conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herbsutter.com\/2011\/10\/12\/dennis-ritchie\/\">Herb Sutter<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/10\/13\/cant-be-done\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/herbsutter.com\/2011\/10\/12\/dennis-ritchie\/\"><p>Bjarne Stroustrup made an eloquent point about the importance of Ritchie&rsquo;s contributions to our field: &ldquo;They said it couldn&rsquo;t be done, and he did it.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2011-10-16): More from <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/4378\">Lambda<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray: It&rsquo;s hard to believe that there was a time when any of these weren&rsquo;t conventional wisdom, but there was such a time. Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I&rsquo;ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime. Not to take anything away from Ritchie, but Unix got so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}