sho-dan Posted October 13, 2011 ID:485319 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Theres a saying, everything happens in threes:(Steve Jobs died last week at the age of 56 and former Motorola CEO and cell phone industry leader Robert W. Galvin died earlier this week at the age of 89 and now Dennis Ritchie at the age of 70) R.I.P to these tech giants Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username "dmr") was part of a dynamic software development duo with Ken Thompson at Bell Labs, which they joined in 1967 and 1966, respectively. Ritchie created the C programming language, which replaced the B programming language Thompson invented. The two later went on to create Unix, initially for minicomputers and written in assembly language, in 1969, and written in C in 1973. Unix went on to become key software for critical computing infrastructure around the world, though wasn't for everyone. Ritchie once said: "UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." Unix , of course, became the inspiration for newer operating systems including Linux and Apple's iOS. networkworld Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted October 14, 2011 ID:485779 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Rest in Peace and my condolences to his loved ones <3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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