{"id":3885,"date":"2011-10-30T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2014-03-11T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:07:45","slug":"dennis-ritchie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Ritchie day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O&#8217;Reilly <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/10\/dennis-ritchie-day.html\">proposes<\/a> that we designate the 30th of October as &#8220;Dennis Ritchie day&#8221;.  That works for me.  Pass it on.<\/p>\n<p>Since my readers are probably wondering: Yes, I knew Dennis slightly.  He contributed to <cite>The Art Of Unix Programming<\/cite> and was very supportive of the project.  He was indeed as pleasant and gracious as others report&#8230;a true gentleman and, of course, a hacker of such stratospheric accomplishment as to have few or no peers.  But he treated me like one anyway &#8212; and <em>that<\/em> was an honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O&#8217;Reilly proposes that we designate the 30th of October as &#8220;Dennis Ritchie day&#8221;. That works for me. Pass it on. Since my readers are probably wondering: Yes, I knew Dennis slightly. He contributed to The Art Of Unix Programming and was very supportive of the project. He was indeed as pleasant and gracious as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3885\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dennis Ritchie day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacker-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}