Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Damn. It’s been 15 years already. He died at a similar time to Steve jobs and jobs got all the news. Without Dennis, we may not have had many of the breakthroughs in technology we did

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