Dennis Ritchie died last weekend at the age of 70. He worked in Bell Labs for most of his life - and is most noted for two very important computing projects: the Unix operating system and the C programming language.
The article notes:
"Today, C remains the second most popular programming language in the world (or at least the language in which the second most lines of code have been written), and ushered in C++ and Java; while the pair’s work on Unix led to, among other things, Linus Torvalds’ Linux. The work has without a doubt made Ritchie one of the most important, if not under-recognized, engineers of the modern era."
So, we lose another pioneer whose work will continue past his death!!!
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