Dennis Ritchie, the father of the 'C' programming language and the co-designer of the venerable UNIX operating system, passed away on 8 Oct '11.
His death has not generated nearly the amount and rhetoric that Job's has... that's just sad, it should have.
“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,” Pike tells Wired. “The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel — that pretty much the entire Internet runs on — is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. And all of the network hardware running these programs I can almost guarantee were written in C.
“It’s really hard to overstate how much of the modern information economy is built on the work Dennis did.”
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