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After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and a esteemed computer scientist , died last week at the age of 70 years.
Ritchie, also known as "dmr" is best known for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his admission in 1967, was one of the largest providers of phone in the U.S. and has one of the most famous research laboratories in the operation.
Working with Thompson (who had written B) in the Bell in the sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient operating system to the minicomputer to come up, resulting in the release of Unix (which runs on a DEC PDP-1) in 1971.
Ritchie, also known as "dmr" is best known for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his admission in 1967, was one of the largest providers of phone in the U.S. and has one of the most famous research laboratories in the operation.
Working with Thompson (who had written B) in the Bell in the sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient operating system to the minicomputer to come up, resulting in the release of Unix (which runs on a DEC PDP-1) in 1971.
Although Unix was cheap and compatible with almost any machine, allowing users to install a variety of software systems, the operating system was written in machine (or assembly) language, meaning that there was a small vocabulary and suffered relationship with memory.
In 1973, Ritchie and Thompson rewrote Unix in C had the development of its syntax, functionality, and beyond to give the language the ability to program an operating system. The core was published in the same year.
Today, C language is still the second most popular programming in the world (or at least the language in which more second lines of code have been written), and ushered in C + + and Java, while the couple work on Unix led, among other things, Linux Linus Torvalds. The work has been done Ritchie undoubtedly one of the most important, if not recognized enough, the engineers of the modern era.
His work, specifically in relation to UNIX, led him to become a common receptor Turing Award in 1983 Ken Thompson and a recipient of National Medal of Technology in 1998 of then-President Bill Clinton.
