The founder of “C” programming language – Dennis Ritchie reported dead
Dennis Ritchie, the inventor and founder of “C” language is reported dead.
According to the news from Mr. Rob Pike, in Google+ that his former colleague Ritchie died at home over the weekend after a long illness.
Born in September 8, 1941 in Bronxville, New York, Ritchie graduated from Harvard with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in physics. Later he joined Bell Labs in 1968. He was a also part of the team working on building a general computer operating system.
Dennis Ritchie was well known as the creator of the C language and a key developer of the UNIX Operating System. Ritchie was best known for the book titled “The C Programming Language”, he had co-authored along with Kernighan.Ritchie has been awarded many awards such as “Turing Award”, “IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal” and National Medal of Technology.
Following code fragment is our humble dedication to the departed soul.
/* For the genius Dennis Ritchie */
#include <stdio.h>
int main ( )
{
printf(“Thanks for giving the wonderful gift of C language to the world \n”);
printf(“The computing world will always salute Dennis Ritchie. May your soul rest in peace!”);
int main ( )
{
printf(“Thanks for giving the wonderful gift of C language to the world \n”);
printf(“The computing world will always salute Dennis Ritchie. May your soul rest in peace!”);
return 0;
}
}