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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