R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie

[Grendel]

Thanks for C !

R.I.P.

[Sirius]

Now this guy... yeah, he left quite a legacy. C and derivatives are a pretty big deal to me, UNIX less so but it's still been very important. For quite a while we've had most of the founders of the computer industry still alive, which has been quite amazing when you think about it - unfortunately, the era has to come to an end eventually.

[Isaac]

Now this guy... yeah, he left quite a legacy. C and derivatives are a pretty big deal to me, UNIX less so but it's still been very important. For quite a while we've had most of the founders of the computer industry still alive, which has been quite amazing when you think about it - unfortunately, the era has to come to an end eventually.

x2. and took us into the next millennium.

[Jeff250]

C is my favorite low-level programming language. It makes just the right level of abstraction, and it hasn't embraced any annoying fashions. A lot of languages have survived for decades, say Cobol, but the most impressive thing about C isn't that people are still using it four decades later but that we're still loving it in the process.

[SirWinner]

Sad to hear of his passing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

I have worked in MFC C++ for the last year and a half... Took way too long to get the project done due to oddities in Microsoft's MFC C++ implementation..

I like C# a lot better than MFC C++ and C++.

C++ is decent but I prefer Assembly Language which has been around a lot longer than C.

I think better writing code in Visual Basic than in C.

Happy C'ing...

[Jeff250]

Any assembly language you're programming in today isn't older than C. I definitely prefer python to C for anything high level.

[snoopy]

I thought assembly was assembly was assembly?

Or does it differ from chip architecture to chip architecture?

[Jeff250]

Yes, in general, different processor architectures use different instruction sets. Your laptop is probably x86, your phone is probably ARM, your home router is probably MIPS, and your gaming console is probably PowerPC, all using different instruction sets. In general, newer x86 processors also introduce new instructions, like for SSE n+1. Even Intel tried to replace x86 with Itanium, but they couldn't escape even their own backwards compatibility. There are also subtle differences depending on your assembler. For instance, the AT&T x86 syntax vs. the Intel x86 syntax is notable for having the destination operand in the opposite position.