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Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C & Unix reported d (google.com)

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Whiney Mac Fanboy
Whiney Mac Fanboy writes: "The register & many others, are reporting on the death of Dennis Ritchie", confirmed by a google plus post by Rob Pike, a former colleague at Bell labs.

Dennis Ritchie was best known as co-creator of the Unix operating system (modern versions of which underpin most smart phones, Linux & OS X) and the creator of the powerful & elegant C programming language.

This is a truly sad day. The computing community has lost one of the giants, on who's shoulders so many who came after stood."

Submission + - Dennis Ritche dead at age 70 (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by pedantic bore
pedantic bore writes: Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C and UNIX, former leader of the Computer Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, and winner of the ACM Turing Award, is reported dead at age 70.

Dennis Ritchie was one of the inventors who, without much fanfare and almost no publicity outside of the field, revolutionized operating systems and programming languages. His influence is ubiquitious; C and POSIX are the bedrock of nearly all modern computing platforms.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie passed away (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I've recently learned that Dennis Ritchie has passed away. Where is the Slashdot love to one of the Unix creators?. Like it or not, Unix and it's programming language, C, has been the more influential pieces of software of all times.
R.I.P. Dennis, and thanks for all the semicolons.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has passed on (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dennis Ritchie just passed away. I can think of nothing to say that you don't already know about him, except that once he claimed he'd never been a member of the Demigodic party. He was, of course, quite wrong. I feel like a pillar of the world has just broken.
Unix

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. [...]
The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+.

Submission + - Denis Ritchie dies aged 70. (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by OneMadMuppet
OneMadMuppet writes: Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said that Ritchie, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home this weekend after a long illness.
Programming

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and C, has died (i-programmer.info) 5

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Dennis Ritchie the designer and original developer of both the C programming language, and co-creator of Unix has died at age 71 after prolonged illness.
It seems incredible from today's perspective that two people, motivated mainly by enthusiasm, should develop both an operating system and a programming language but that's exactly what Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson achieved.
Unix and the Unix way of doing things eventually transmuted into Linux and is now the server OS that powers industry and the Internet.
C on the other hand has been the basis for all of the C-like languages we all know and use every day — Java, C# and of course C++. Whenever you write a three-parameter for loop, for(init;test;inc), you owe a debt to C and should think of the fun that Dennis Ritchie had inventing it and making it all work.
Unix

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie died (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and the C programming language, died last saturday, according to Rob Pike Google+.

Comment RIP (Score 1) 3

by stderr_dk (#37699288) Attached to: RIP Dennis Ritchie
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

volatile int dmr=1;

int main()
{
   dmr--;
   printf(":-(\n");
   exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has died. (google.com)

Submitted by yorugua
yorugua writes: As a long time Unix user, I'm suddenly out of words for this loss in the Tech World. RIP Dennis, and my condolences to his family.
Unix

Submission + - RIP Dennis Ritchie (google.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: (via Rob Pike) The creator of C and Unix, Dennis Ritchie or dmr as he is popularly known died over the weekend.
Unix

Submission + - RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Dan Dankleton
Dan Dankleton writes: It is being reported that one of the men most responsible for the shape of modern computing, Dennis Ritchie, has died at the age of 70.

Ritchie was one of the main authors of both C and UNIX, and as such his legacy and influence cannot be underestimated.

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