From 594a6ccfa3591b62a11797c9ca6ca65acf82cf7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shlomi Fish Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:32:22 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add the dennis-ritchie patch from debian. Description: Please find attached a patch to the computer datfiles to add some more of Dennis Ritchie's quotes to the files. I found that there were no quotes related to the C language and thought that it would be a nice way to pay homage to the wizard the world recenty lost. . These quotes are taken from the Wikipedia as well as from some of the interviews published in different years that are available online. Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646379 --- fortune-mod/datfiles/computers | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers b/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers index e9e6425..54bd2b0 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers @@ -5542,3 +5542,50 @@ mountains. % Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) +% +UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +C has "the power of assembly language and the convenience of... assembly +language." + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think +back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide +crowd. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +To tell the truth, I don't know how Linus and his merry band manage so well -- +I couldn't have stood it with C. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely +open -- any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose +inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're +designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a +compiler. Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook +up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It's a +lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful +languages (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone does win +the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% +Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say, +are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. +For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. + -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of + UNIX +% -- 2.40.0