Since Ken Thompson is my idol, the people say that DMR's Dennis M. Ritchie is natural. After all, the two jointly created Unix, and Dennis almost distracted C. Of course, C is B, and B is Ken Thompson made one hand. J Shared the Tu Wara Prize in 1983. It is an engineer in history (the only one in the project ", but Alan Kay is only awarded by the SMALLTALK. . A person can make a good system in a life that is not easy. DMR's C and UNIX are not dead for nearly 30 years. So far, DMR has no regrets.
D grandfather also had a home student: his father worked for a lifetime in the AT & T Bell laboratory, and has achieved the achievements in circuit design, and it has also been an influential book. The Design of Switch Circuits is said to exchange theory and Logic design has unique discussion. Of course, D grandfather and his father are people of different era: Before his father's research is formed before the transistors invented, and D grandfather's work is not allowed to play the transistor. :-D
Don't look at D Grandpa, in fact, his favorite programming language is ALEF, running on Plan9, support parallel programming. ALEF's syntax and C are similar, but data types and execution methods are very different from C. Speaking of the language, D Grandpa has a very pertinent suggestion for the later people: Holding the purpose of learning to develop your own language, don't expect it to be accepted by everyone. This proposal is not only useful to develop language and is also applicable to the development of other large systems. Others don't say, DMR later led his team to launch Plan9 and Inferno operating system in 1995 and 199, how many people know? In fact, D Grandpa didn't think of C will be popular in the world. He developed C's original intention and ERIC S. Raymond, as explained in Cathedral and Bazaar, is to eliminate his uncomfortably on existing tools. Who knows that D grandfather is unintentional, cactors have been worn by many programmers, and even D grandfather is very confused. In an interview, D grandfather said that it was because C's abstraction happened to meet the requirements of programmers and easily realized. Of course, C is the general language on UNIX is also a reason. But in any case, D Grandpa laid the foundation of C-wide circulated aesthetic awareness of programming language.
The last gossip. D Grandpa's amateur hobby and NBA big cow Karl Malone: drive truck. However, D grandfather prefer to open NASCAR, and KM loves the giant. J D Grandpa claims to be a idol in his heart, if you must say one, that is, Ken Thompson. Now Ken Grandpa retires as a plane coach, and D grandfather is a head of the Bell Lab System Development Department, busy opening a check all day. They have worked together for 20 years and have repeatedly created history. This is a good story, and you will always stay in my heart.
P.s., many people think that Brian W. Kernighan is the author of C. In fact, BWK just wrote the classic K & R C. According to D Grandpa, he, ken, and kernighan three, kernighan can write articles, he is, and Ken writes the least; but it is said that Ken Grandpa is a well-deserved boss.
