Happy Birthday to the legend!

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WriterProper4495@reddit

Sadly, his death was overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs a few days before. R.I.P., Dennis.

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NoiseGrindPowerDeath@reddit

Not to mention Jobs profiting from Unix-based software

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rockymega@reddit

Dang Steve Jobs, dying at the wrong time. Couldn't he have waited a year?

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This always make me sad. Some of the greatest injustices of the time. Fortunately, most of the open source community recognises his passionate and selfless contributions, the linux kernel is literally built with C, he literally laid the foundations for all IT ecosystem. He may not be as famous as Steve jobs but he's certainly recognized by the right set of people. Kinda the same story with Linus/Stallman vs bill gates.

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LinuxMonarch@reddit (OP)

Sad truth 😔

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Technical-Cheek1441@reddit

A very large man, he wrote his autograph in my C language book.

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DirectorMiddle116@reddit

One fateful day, Dennis Ritchie was walking down a sidewalk, jamming to some ABBA, life was going so great, but then he noticed something. An impoverished child, starving. Dennis was kind, and gave the boy a crisp dollar bill and a firm handshake. That boy? The Rizzler. No im not kidding.

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arnaclez@reddit

Wait so you’re telling me that the rizzler met Dennis Ritchie? Wait let me get this straight you’re telling me that the rizzler met Dennis Ritchie? Are you being serious you’re telling me that the rizzler met Dennis Ritchie?

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LinuxMonarch@reddit (OP)

What the...

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jalanb@reddit

When we stand on the fabled "shoulders" This guy was down the bottom, with his mates

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Acceptable_Ad6909@reddit

Happy Birthday Sir 🎉

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NationalRound1152@reddit

Steve Jobs is often celebrated as a genius for bringing expensive phones to the world. Meanwhile, Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language and was instrumental in developing UNIX — the foundation for Linux and much of the modern internet — yet his legacy is far less remembered. R.I.P., Dennis Ritchie.

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Steve Jobs did nothing more than steal Wozniak's money, get high and steal existing tech rebranded as innovation. (And yes, it wasn't apple that created the user interface. It wasn't xerox either. User interfaces existed in the form of TUIs for years before.) Oh and the iPhone isn't original. Touchscreens existed since the 80s. Tablets since 2003 (maybe even before, but definitely in 2003). Combining them together was also discussed in other groups but nobody had the money to take the risk. I'll give him credit for one thing - Getting the computer to commoners. That's something that is more about marketing genius than tech genius though.

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Acceptable_Ad6909@reddit

Well said bruh...

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slumdogbi@reddit

Both contribute a lot to society. We don’t need to compare them.

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Acceptable_Ad6909@reddit

Bruh Take a bus and go to your home ....

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NationalRound1152@reddit

Lmao.

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OttoKekalainen@reddit

It is nice to remember him, but a littel bit misleading image/title as he passed away in 2011 and not really having any birthdays anymore..

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NFTWonder@reddit

Now this is a cool guy. Also check out Ken Thompson.

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LinuxMonarch@reddit (OP)

Also, Brian Kerninghan!

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

How many hours did I spend pouring over the K&R book?

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mofomeat@reddit

Hopefully enough so that when you got to The Unix Programming Manual you could understand it too!

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kudlitan@reddit

I see (c).

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_MiGi_0@reddit

He passed away right? This post doesn't make sense.

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chibiace@reddit

whats your point? people celebrate jesus's birthday too, and that dude has been dead of millennia and probably didn't even exist unlike this awesome dude right here.

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MessyKerbal@reddit

Boo, Reddit atheist Also Jesus absolutely did exist, at the very least as a historical figure.

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whatyouarereferring@reddit

Lol there is no evidence Jesus was a real person this is just another repeated meme

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nepios83@reddit

According to Bart Ehrman, there is not a single professor of history, religious studies, or Classics in the United States who denies the historic existence of Jesus of Nazareth. The belief that Jesus was a mythical figure is mainly the result of an online movement, and the entire movement has only around four people with PhDs.

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whatyouarereferring@reddit

Do you know what evidence means?

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Atheist here. Plenty of evidence that some guy claimed to be the Messiah and descend from the skies to save humanity and so on. Whether he was just lying or he's indeed God is a huge hot debate that defines entire religions and beliefs, so I'll leave it at that. But there most definitely was a guy named Jesus that was born around 0 AD, got crucified and had a lot of students and followers.

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whatyouarereferring@reddit

I would think people here would be more willing to post sources instead of hearsay

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

I don't have any primary sources handy right now, but I do remember that contemporary Greek/Roman historians mentioned vague things that correlate to Jesus in what's now Israel. There's definitely plenty of them if you're willing to put in the effort but the fact that all top scientists agree on this should be plenty of evidence.

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whatyouarereferring@reddit

Nobody seems to have any sources when it comes down to it

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Fine I'll give you your sources and you can go to bed happy - Paul's letters (I'm not gonna copypaste them here, you can read them for free if you want). They're the primary source. - Gospels: Literally written by his students. The fact that a dozen people or so all reference a specific guy that tutored them is plenty of evidence that they didn't all have schizophrenia and made him up jointly. - Josephus (93 CE): Clearly and explicitly mentions Jesus, exactly as a person living in what's now Israel. - Tacitus (116 CE): Confirms the crucifixion, with Roman records as his sources. - Suetonius (121 CE): References a person called Chrestus (Jesus in Greek basically) causing disturbance in Rome. Pretty historically accurate. There's five. Oh, and because I know what you're thinking, no don't try to "refute" each one of them separately, the reason they're trustworthy is that they all agree about some guy living in Judea around the early first century, claiming to be God. If you don't trust me, look them up on your own, it took me a couple Google searches so you can do it too.

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whatyouarereferring@reddit

I can name 5 books citing Paul bunyans existence. It doesn't mean it's true lol

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MessyKerbal@reddit

I’m sure you know better than essentially all historians who have looked into this

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_MiGi_0@reddit

Meh, I stopped caring about them years ago. Most of them are very stupid and stubborn.

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MessyKerbal@reddit

Nearly all of them, really. Unfortunately I’m stupid so I continue to engage with them.

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jabbalaci@reddit

> and probably didn't even exist Stop your bullshit right here and now.

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USERNAME123_321@reddit

There's no evidence he existed, and there's no evidence he didn't exist. It's a useless debate since both statements are non-fasifiable. Personally, I am an atheist, since the bible is not compatible at all with science, which instead is falsifiable and also has a lot of empirical evidence. Btw I'm not talking about historical Jesus, since who cares if he existed or not

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

>There's no evidence he existed, and there's no evidence he didn't exist. One cancels out the other

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USERNAME123_321@reddit

Not really. Let's say I told you I have an invisible undetectable leprechaun in my home. Would you believe me? I'd guess not. We have no evidence that this leprechaun exists, but we also can't say it doesn't exist. Does it make sense to debate whether it exists or not? There's an epistemological razor called Hitchen's razor that states: >What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence Another philosophical razor applies here, the Occam's razor, that states: >Explanations that require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions. These two general rules of thumb make the debate about the existence of Jesus useless

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_MiGi_0@reddit

Uh lol didn't mean to offend, I was genuinely confused who op was wishing to. Sure.

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phylter99@reddit

I had to stop and think for a second too, but as others noted there are many people who we celebrate for their achievements that we continue celebrating their birthdays after their passing. In this case he helped define the direction of computing forever. Before he came along computers were crazy and nothing worked the same between systems. Even the differences between Linux and Windows don’t compare since they both utilize some of his ideas and it’s why they’re more similar than different.

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_MiGi_0@reddit

I agree. Dennis Ritchie is a grade A legend.

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chibiace@reddit

👍

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USERNAME123_321@reddit

You can celebrate the birthday of a deceased person to honour their achievements

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georgehank2nd@reddit

Yes, you can, but it's customary to do so on "round" anniversaries. DMR would have turned 84? Not really remarkable.

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multi_io@reddit

Yah but you should at least mention somewhere that they died. Not everyone might know it. And that image already has the DoB in it, but no date of death, which is kinda deceiving for the uninitiated :)

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kalam_burgud@reddit

Undefined behavior

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nepios83@reddit

I totally agree.

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dajiru@reddit

You're right: 12/10/2011.

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eXtc_be@reddit

is that December 10th or 12 October?

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dajiru@reddit

October the 12th

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githman@reddit

K&R C was my first serious book on programming. This man lived his life right and I envy people like him greatly.

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Shah_1_Karan@reddit

The god of programming language c

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wq1119@reddit

Same birthday as my old man!, rest in peace Dennis!, thank you so much for Linux!

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MagicDoor_Genie@reddit

Without Dennis Ritchie's groundbreaking work, the entire landscape of modern programming—including the syntax and design principles of C++, Java, and ultimately C#—would likely be completely different.

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kalzEOS@reddit

The man himself.

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not_from_this_world@reddit

Absolut Legend

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1kfaces@reddit

“Your mother is so fat, the recursive function calculating her mass causes a stack overflow “

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Expensive-Context-37@reddit

Legend

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Pritster5@reddit

Absolute legend of modern computing. He is the giant whose shoulders we all stand on.

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takshaksh@reddit

The guy who gave us a solid foundation.

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better_not_know@reddit

thanks for your services sir Happy Birthday to father of C who made roast-head IT Collage student

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mantawolf@reddit

Back in my uni days, I was in a Unix course and the instructor and I looked up Ritchie's email address at Bell Labs at like 7PM and emailed him, and the dude still responded, this was probably the late 90s. My brush with brilliance.

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