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I'm old enough that K&R was the bible when I started with Borland's Turbo C 1.0. Another sad day for computer science.
by smoyer 15y ago
I'm old enough that K&R was the bible when I started with Borland's Turbo C 1.0. Another sad day for computer science.
- Hitchhiker 15y agoI started with Turbo C++ 4.0 in 1994 as a geeky 8th grader. You're evoking some powerful memories. A tremendously sad day.
- alnayyir 15y agoYoung(er) dev here: It still is. It's the first, foremost, and only recommendation we give for a C book on Freenode among the veterans. K&R is how I initially learned of Ritchie, along with Unix and hacker lore. This is a sad day for me personally. We're starting to the lose the original hackers. We need to start thinking about biographies and archival options. I appreciate that dmr was a private man, but we need to start making more opportunities to interview these guys. Zed Shaw's work might eventually supplant K&R as my choice for a tutorial for people new to C, but I'll always recommend it to people who really want to know their roots.
- barrkel 15y agoalnayyir, you've been hellbanned. In case you didn't know.
- zach 15y agoAlthough this makes his comments only viewable by comment-necrophiliacs like us and are unchallengeable by reply. It's like alnayyir is a zombie gadfly. Creepy.
- nitrogen 15y agoThat must've been one seriously downvoted comment to get someone with over 2000 karma to a -2 average.
- egor83 15y agoAFAIR, average is only counted on your last 50 comments.
- burgerbrain 15y agoIt was a series of comments I believe, in which he began taunting the people downvoting him to downvote him more.
- derwiki 15y agohellbanned?
- Radix 15y agoBanned users are not informed of the ban. New comments are quietly autokilled. This particular user, iirc, was a frequent poster who was notable for their additions. Which I'm guessing is why they've been told. Viewing comments with showdead on is good but it makes viewing the new page difficult when half the page is auto-banned links.
- Confusion 15y agoMeaning his comments don't show up to anyone except for himself. A way to ban someone without him noticing it, so he doesn't create a new account.