Dennis Ritchie, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer reported to have died this past wee

Khalid

Minister (2k+ posts)
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Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post.


Wikipedia biography here.


He was the designer and original developer of the C programming language, and a central figure in the development of Unix. He spent much of his career at Bell Labs. He was awarded the Turing Award in 1983, and the National Medal of Technology in 1999.


"Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs's; it's just less visible," James Grimmelman observed on Twitter. "His pointer has been cast to void *; his process has terminated with exit code 0."


The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/de...-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html
 

Khalid

Minister (2k+ posts)
RT @aakarpost: RIP Dennis Ritchie, you invented something that invented the rest !!

RT @amirk "There won't be Linux and Apple if #DennisRitchie was not creating (and co-creating) C and UNIX in the first place. Rest in Peace"

RT @nakima_nakim: RT@T_asman "Goodbye world", says the man who gave us the "Hello World".

RIP #DennisRitchie..!! UNIX co-founder. I owe you a moment of silence for providing me bread-n-butter.

Someone who has made a greater contribution to the world has just passed away but no one noticed.

RT @thepsmBOOM: "UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." #DennisRitchie rest in peace
 

Khalid

Minister (2k+ posts)
It’s being reported 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.

http://www.crazyengineers.com/dennis-ritchie-creator-of-c-programming-language-unix-dies-1129/
 

Wadaich

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
His death is great loss to Software Industry.. .... Indeed he fathered many industry giants. However, I personally had many grievances, as I once got failed in C language paper and C++ ... .... .... I passed them finally but was frightened so much as to shift to Databases and 4th generation languages.. ... .... Ab bhi jab koin "C,C++" naam laita hay tou jurjhari say aa jaati hay.
 
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AbuOkasha

MPA (400+ posts)
Ab bhi jab koin "C,C++" naam laita hay tou jurjhari say aa jaati hay.
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My All time fav language always scored A+ :) , The First Book i Read on any PL is Introduction to C by (K&R) Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kerning. gr8 inspiration for the programmers.
 

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