Dennis Ritchie, the father of C and Unix, an esteemed computer scientist, fighting from illness for a long time died last weekend at the age of 70.
Ritchie, best known for creating the C programming language and playing a big role in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie worked for most of his career at Bell Labs, which he joined in 1967, and it had one of the most well-known research labs in operation.
Working with Thompson at Bell in the late sixties, the two men set together to develop an efficient OS for computer, resulting in the release of Unix in 1971. This was cheap and compatible with any machine, allowing users to install a variety of software systems, the OS was written in machine language.
Till today, C remains the second most popular programming language in the world. Linux which came as successor to Unix is famous worldwide. The work made Ritchie one of the most important, engineers of the modern era.His work made him a joint recipient of the Turing Award with Ken Thompson in 1983, he also got National Medal of Technology in 1998 from Bill Clinton.
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