Oct 13 2011
dmr, Sept. 9, 1941 – Oct. 9, 2011
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username dmr) died past weekend.
From the Wikipedia:
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
Ritchie’s invention of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing. The C language is still widely used today in application and operating system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages. Unix has also been influential, establishing concepts and principles that are now well-established precepts of computing.
Ritchie was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for «development of the ‘C’ programming language and for co-development of the UNIX operating system.»
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In 1983, Ritchie and Ken Thompson jointly received the Turing Award «for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.» Ritchie’s Turing Award lecture was titled «Reflections on Software Research«.
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