Dennis Ritchie, Father Of 'C' & Unix, Passes Away

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Ritchie’s creation of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson made him a pioneer name in the world of modern day computing.

Dennis Ritchie, father of C programming language and Unix operating system, is reportedly dead. Ritchie died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness.

Ritchie’s creation of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson made him a pioneer name in the world of modern day computing. The news was first made public by Canadian software engineer and author Rob Pike on his Google+ Page.

Born in 1941 in Bronxville, New York, Ritchie graduated from Harvard with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in physics before joining Bell Labs in 1968. He was a member of the team working on building a general computer operating system.

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Thanks for recognizing an unsung player. He won’t get the accolades of fans for supposedly inventing personal computing, the operating system, the mouse and touch technology - as other ‘luminaries’ have.

Mark…

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Please, let’s not argue the relative values of cadavers.

– Stephen

"Kids these days.
Whatever happened to hard work?"

– Joel Spolsky, The perils of javaschools

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A visionary…a true visionary of Things…Alas, we need tht kind of breakthrough to
bring us to the next stage of Technology…!

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or comapnies that bellied up (Bell Labs) because they hired cheap foreign engineers to save a buck

— On Fri, 10/14/11, Rajiv Biswas youther.biswas8@gmail.com wrote:


> From: Rajiv Biswas youther.biswas8@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Dennis Ritchie, Father Of ‘C’ & Unix, Passes Away
> To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 14, 2011, 12:00 PM
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> A visionary…a true visionary of Things…Alas, we need tht kind of breakthrough to
> bring us to the next stage of Technology…!
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mark Lee <marcusantoniouslee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for recognizing an unsung player. He won’t get the accolades of fans for supposedly inventing personal computing, the operating system, the mouse and touch technology - as other ‘luminaries’ have.
> >
> > Please, let’s not argue the relative values of cadavers.
> >
> > – Stephen
> >
> > "Kids these days.
> > Whatever happened to hard work?"
> >
> > – Joel Spolsky, The perils of javaschools
> >
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Wow. Talk about a person who changed the computer industry. He really
is unsung. The great marketeers who make a lot of money get their
names pasted everywhere. Dennis is the kind of a guy who really
deserves it. Wow again. Good bye Dennis, thanks for changing my life
and a million others who've had the pleasure of being at the ground
level of this industry.

Pierre