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  • Code in peace: remembering Dennis Ritchie, father of C & Unix

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (source: Wikipedia ) I was very sad to read a post from Jon "Maddog" Hall yesterday evening revealing the news that Dennis Ritchie has passed away at the age of 70. Ritchie created the C programming language and was the…

  • Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix and "C," his life and work

    Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs The generation that blazed the path to modern electronics is reaching the age of a full century. As time moves, we lose more and more of these early pioneers. The person who has influences every single engineer has passed,…

  • Dennis Ritchie, father of C, passes away at 70

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (source: Wikipedia ) I figured Embedded Systems was an appropriate place to write of the passing of Dennis Ritchie, the father of C and co-creator of Unix. In fact, the only context that I use C anymore on a regular basis…