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Interview with Dennis Ritchie (2003)
- m3andros 8y agoThank you so very much, zaiste, for sharing this marvelous piece of history! I enjoyed every bit of it. I'm curious, if you had a do-over - what particular questions would you have asked the great Dennis Ritchie?
- dynamic_sausage 8y agoInteresting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries. The only one visible is OED 2nd edition. I had no idea OED was ever available for dictd...
- bodhiandphysics 8y agoHe's not using unix... it's a plan 9 system, and there's no dictd in plan 9...
- jxy 8y agoDennis Ritchie explained that it is Plan 9 CPU server in drawterm. You can find a list of dictionaries available on Plan 9 inside Bell Lab at https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/7524062cfa4689019a4ed6fc22500ec209522ef0/sys/src/cmd/dict/utils.c#L6 https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/7524062cfa4689019a4ed6f... Unfortunately only "pgw" and "roget" are publicly available. The rest are likely died under the onslaught of copyright.
- billfruit 8y agoBut I have never heard of OED2 being any time available as a dictionary under any Unix, that is for the general public.
- gasdlkhas 8y agoI wonder what :) :) :(.c is
- sys_64738 8y agoInteresting he’susing NT back then. Wonder if he uses WSL under Win10 nowadays. Cool stuff.
- glouwbug 8y agoI'm almost certain he isn't
- aquabeagle 8y agoDennis Ritchie passed away in 2011.
- senozhatsky 8y agoPretty interesting, that mail utility didn't bother to wrap the words correctly. Notice .. BSD and o\nther .. .. persons i\nn .. .. give a\nn .. and so on.
- ethhics 8y agoYes, acme mail relies on the message body being formatted to (correctly) be less than 76 or so characters per line. Its line wrapping is crude as well
- jxy 8y agoThat's not `\n`. That's how acme displays long lines. Dennis Ritchie is on this page too, http://acme.cat-v.org http://acme.cat-v.org
- senozhatsky 8y ago> That's not `\n`. That's how acme displays long lines. Oh, yes, sure. I just didn't know how to show the line break, so just "embedded" \n-s. I realize that there are no \n-s there.
- jxy 8y agoI just saw that Dennis Ritchie has a short cut to Sam on his Windows NT desktop in 2002, while Brian Kernighan was using Sam from plan9port on Mac OS in 2015, from this screenshot https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/ https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developer... I thought it was interesting to point this out.
- aap_ 8y agoThe icon being pjw's face naturally :) http://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html http://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html