Old programmers never die⚓
When a programmer dies, I feel kind of different than someone else has died, it is complicated to explain but when you are a programmer you might understand that.
(10/24/2011): We are having a sad month. John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp & garbage collection, father of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Turing Award recipient has passed away. What a great life full of contributions to the world and starting a new era in computer science.
(old (programmers (never die) (they just (get one extra closing-paranthesis))))
(10/13/2011): We have just Dennis Ritchie (dms), creator of C language and developer of Unix and Turing Award recipient. His contribution to programming world was unarguably quite a lot. Very sorry to hear that. My condolences to his family and friends.
old programmers never die, they just cast into void*.
(7/25/2011) Today we all heard loss of Steve Lacey, a Google employee (formerly, Microsoft employee) after a car accident in Kirkland (very near to me). Steve worked in Flight Simulator which is really one of my favorite video games. Our thoughts are with his wife and 7 year old boy and 5 year old girl.
old software engineers never die, they just logout.
One month ago, we lost Robert Morris, another programming wizard and computer security pioneer worked on UNIX has passed away. Imagine now all Linux, Android, iOS, Mac OS devices are derived from UNIX. Such a great story of his life.
old unix programmers never die, they just
mv-ed to/dev/null
When you go back a few years, in 2007, the father of database transactions processing and Turing Award receipent Jim Gray lost at sea after sailing with his boat. Before his loss, he worked on Microsoft Virtual Earth, and more importantly he was a pioneer in TerraServer (and WorldWide Telescope) which is a database for aerial world maps. After his disappearance, Microsoft, Google and Amazon collaborated to find him — and guess what, using WorldWide Telescope maps he had developed. (more…)

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