Dennis Ritchie has died. He was one of the inventors of Unix and C. Without those, there would be no Mac OS X and no iPhone App development tools (well not in Obj-C anyway).
I suspect the mainstream media will not be quite all over this.
I’d just like to say that his book on the C programming language is one of the few old programming books I’ve hung on to. Because it’s so good.
http://blog.tagxedo.com/rip-dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-58975
Too right. I have never bothered with these automated tests, nearly everyone I see using them turns them off during development and then hands a junior programmer the job of getting them back up-to-date. They do absolutely nothing to improve the quality of the code, they just create busy-work for third-rate programmers who can’t be trusted with writing second-level forms.
Cringely, who predicted in February that Apotheker would be fired, explains the HP slow motion car crash.
I could simplify this.
