From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RF2Vr-0006QI-En for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:34:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FD3321C139; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from internet.com.uy (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620E321C0A8 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:33:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme7.acmenet (r190-134-50-226.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy [190.134.50.226]) by correo.tecnet.com.uy (8.14.4/8.14.4/host-001) with ESMTP id p9FBX5fP022384 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:33:05 -0200 X-TN_STAT: 25 Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:33:04 -0200 From: luis jure To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie Message-ID: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.43]); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:33:05 -0200 (UYST) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ff1aafa31c1e466c5f16c1fd9eff3e75 hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate for the lack of echo of these news in the media, by dedicating some time to celebrate his memory and express our gratitude. best, lj [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never seen any female names on this list...