New Year Memorial Master

Time plunging, Flash Dennis M. Ritchie has been dead for more than four years, has been wanting to write some words to commemorate the teacher respected by the world's programmers, this is not because of how busy, but I really need to calm down, pious memory of the computer industry's greatest scientist.

Dennis M. Ritchie's two greatest accomplishments were the design of the C language and the UNIX operating system (along with another equally great Ken Thompson), and it was these two things that almost laid the groundwork for the entire computer program. Almost all of the software in the computer is related to the two things, and before, people say Steve Jobs is a change of the world, however, the kernel of his successful Mac OS X system is actually UNIX, The design language of the iOS system used on the iphone and ipad is objective-c just one of the dozens of variants of the C language. If Steve Jobs were Alexander and Caesar, then Dennis M. Ritchie was the same as Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. The former established the Times, while the latter created civilization. Who really changed the world, it goes without saying.

To me, Dennis M. Ritchie was a lighthouse-like existence, when the light went backwards about 12 years ago, when I was a sophomore in computer science at Zhejiang University, with a rectification tutorial that was depressing to program, except for exams or exams, I slowly realized that high school learning methods, may be able to pass the exam, but obviously can not meet my ideal for the university, by virtue of Learning basic language and DOS system experience in high school, I know that programming should not be this way, there must be something wrong, but always not its door into, At that time even do not understand the pointer to the address in the end is in memory address or hard disk address, let alone do something you want to do, until one day, in the library picked up a "Computer Application Digest", saw a very wonderful article, the specific content I have forgotten, The main idea is criticized rectification that kind of education way, and then recommended the C language designer's masterpiece "The C programming Language", the text is very confident and contagious, immediately decided to find this book to see, this look at the programming this road to today.

Today, look at the hands of this has been I turned out of the dilapidated "the C programming Language", I think this has gone to the master and that belongs to the master of the Times, greatly saddened. No doubt. This book and C language took me into the magical, legendary hacker community. I found confidence, work and glory there. Dennis M. Ritchie at least changed my life, let me look at the stars with a grateful gaze, hoping to see this great and low-key soul.

New Year Memorial Master