RIP Dennis Ritchie

Moley · 13 Oct 2011 at 18:41

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391

A name probably not familiar to most people, but a serious pioneer of the computer age whose work still impacts most people today.

He was one of the creators of Unix and created the 'C' programming language with Brian Kernighan.

If you use any of the 'C' derived languages, you have this man to thank for his original work.

Rest in peace Dennis.

SMB30 · 13 Oct 2011 at 18:56

Sad day indeed.

Chris1712 · 13 Oct 2011 at 20:48

Bad times

. It's pretty sad how everyone was so vocal about Steve Jobs death when this guy really started it all. iOS, it's BSD *nix written in C for gods sake. Ritchie really set the foundations for nearly all technology around us, so many consumer electronics devices are unix/linux based with C code coursing through it. Smartphones, TV's, Tablets, set-top boxes bloomin everything.

FragnaticDeath · 13 Oct 2011 at 21:35

RIP :<

Chanc3 · 13 Oct 2011 at 21:56

RIP Ritchie

ZombieFan · 14 Oct 2011 at 13:12

It's sad to see him go. I've still got my C Programming Language book from when I first used the language...

fez · 14 Oct 2011 at 13:40

Very very clever man by all accounts. Thank you for everything and RIP.

tntcoder · 14 Oct 2011 at 14:47

Very sad

madindehead · 15 Oct 2011 at 22:23

The only newpaper that had an obituary for him that I saw was the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/dennis-ritchie

I also have a copy of the above mentioned C programming language book. Has helped me a lot with C during my time at university.

sniffy · 16 Oct 2011 at 03:29

Damn. A great mind indeed.