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Computer Science Legend – Dennis Ritchie – RIP

Dennis Ritchie died on 10/12/2011. He was credited with writing the C Programming Language, and both the UNIX and Plan 9 Operating Systems. Here is his bio: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bigbio1st.html. On a personal note, I’ve always viewed both Ken and Dennis as Superheros. It’s sad to see him go.

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“Ritchie’s influence rivals Jobs’s; it’s just less visible,” James Grimmelman observed on Twitter. “His pointer has been cast to void *; his process has terminated with exit code 0.”

#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdio.h>

int main(){
    printf("Thank you for creating me\\n"); 
    exit(0);
}

EDIT: More from Rob Pike on Dennis Ritchie: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY

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