Date created: 11/12/11 20:01:24. Last modified: 01/03/20 15:35:22
Dennis Ritchie
October 12th 2011; Dennis Ritchie died aged 70
October 30th, proclaimed unofficially as Dennis Ritchie Day by Tim O'Reilly.
Dennis achieved many great things with IEEE and AT&T & Bell Labs and changed everyones lives. As the inventor of C and a co-founder of Unix Dennis made the foundations for the operating systems of everyday life, and languages many people frequent for pleasure and for business.
Sean Davis wrote a tribbute in C to Dennis;
$ ./farewell Got a forty. Goodbye, Dennis. I wouldn't be what I am without you. Poured out forty bits for our dead homie.
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