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·4 anni fa·discuss
>Even though I never met or knew Ritchie I still feel bad when I read about his death, when I was a teen I would go in rabbit holes reading about C and Unix, and would read about all the design decisions he made and the rationales for it, a true loss for the programming world.

sounds a lot like me, even I still read docs related to old school UNIX and C to this day

>The concepts of minimalism and modularism are being thrown away and it shows in the performance and stability of new software. It's a shame we have to learn the same lessons over and over.

why though? is coding huge monolithic software easier to do rather than creating a set of modular and simple tools?
Angle_Devoid
·4 anni fa·discuss
Their works still live among us, if anyone tried to look close enough, they would still see their names all over it
Angle_Devoid
·4 anni fa·discuss
I'm assuming bells labs no longer has the financial backing of a monopoly like AT&T that they had 40 years ago?