Angle_Devoid

>Even though I never met or knew Ritchie I still feel bad when I read about his death, when I was a teen I would go in rabbit holes reading about C and Unix, and would read about all the design decisions he made and the rationales for it, a true loss for the programming world.

sounds a lot like me, even I still read docs related to old school UNIX and C to this day

>The concepts of minimalism and modularism are being thrown away and it shows in the performance and stability of new software. It's a shame we have to learn the same lessons over and over.

why though? is coding huge monolithic software easier to do rather than creating a set of modular and simple tools?

Their works still live among us, if anyone tried to look close enough, they would still see their names all over it

I'm assuming bells labs no longer has the financial backing of a monopoly like AT&T that they had 40 years ago?