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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by suivix on Thursday October 13, 2011 @11:00AM (#3107381)
My question is if he didn't create a language like C, would someone else have? Was it such a leap from existing languages?
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by bgurupra on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:08PM (#3107876)
The same thing can be said for pretty much every invention/innovation ever made even if it was a huge leap from the prior art - but then he was the one who did it and I guess that is what matters at the end
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by petegrif on Thursday October 13, 2011 @10:49PM (#3109708)
a) Maybe. b) Yes.
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