C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead
C programming language inventor Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died.
Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness.
At the time of writing, Ritchie’s web page on the site of Bell Labs where he worked, along with other pages relating to Ritchie’s work at Bell, was unavailable.
Mr Ritchie was one of the greats…. I was lucky to begin my C and Unix love affair in the mid 1980’s while working as a student assistant for the California State University’s Chancellor’s Office main computing and network hub for the whole system. I still have his original, non ANSI version of the “C Programming Language” book.
Godspeed Dennis Ritchie… and thank you for your contributions to the computer world.