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While the World (and I) was all concentrating on the departure of Steve Jobs, a man whose achievements have had an even greater impact on today's world is with us no more. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie left us on 8 October 2011. It is sad, very sad, that all major press reported the two passing aways with so starkingly different emphasis. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29">C programming language</a> is the foundation of all modern operating systems, and virtually of all commonly used applications and programming languages. But the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field">reality distortion field</a> is still on.
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