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Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2020 | Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by beefhash | 342 | 133 |
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