{"id":4206,"date":"2011-10-13T22:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2011-10-16T00:38:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:38:34","slug":"daily-kaddish-dennis-ritchie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/10\/14\/business\/RITCHIE-obit\/RITCHIE-obit-articleInline.jpg?resize=190%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"317\" \/>Tonight&#8217;s Kaddish is for <a title=\"NY Times obit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/14\/technology\/dennis-ritchie-programming-trailblazer-dies-at-70.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Ritchie<\/a>, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p>The last several nights I&#8217;ve been writing grumpy posts about recording Kaddishim in the wee hours because of long, long work days as a software geek, but the truth is I have a pretty great job, and I owe a lot of it to the likes of Dennis Ritchie. I cut my teeth on UNIX when I first got started in computer work back in college, and UNIX is the underpinning of the Mac OS X operating system I&#8217;m still using today. A UNIX lookalike named Linux is what beitmalkhut.org&#8217;s web server is running. And most of the software that I&#8217;m using on this computer is written in one variant or another of Ritchie&#8217;s C programming language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,253],"tags":[934,932,935,933],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts","tag-c","tag-dennis-ritchie","tag-linux","tag-unix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}