Dennis Ritchie, Creator Of C Programming Language & UNIX Dies
It's being Dennis Ritchie that Dennis Ritchie, one of the greatest computer engineers of our times who created the C programming language (that got many of you your first ever programming job) and co-creator of UNIX died on October 8, 2011. Mr. Ritchie died after a long illness; the details are unknown yet. He was a researcher at Lucent and retired from his position as the Head Researcher in 2007; but remained active as a consultant. Mr. Ritchie is widely known among the geek community as the creator of C programming language and co-author of the famous book on C; titled The C Programming Language. He also had a very important role in the development of UNIX which is now widely used in various applications. Most of his career was spent at Bell Labs. He was awarded the prestigious Turing Award in 1983 and The National Medal Of Technology in 1999. RIP, Mr. Ritchie.
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Dennis Ritchie: 1941-2011
Dennis Ritchie: 1941-2011
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