Dennis Ritchie (Creator of C) has passed away on 10/8/2010 at the age of 70

[BoredSysAdmin]

Bjarne Stroustrup
Father of C++ programming language.

Speaking of Stroustrup,
Dennis Ritchie (Creator of C and Co-Creator of Unix) has passed away on 10/8/2010 at the age of 70...

Now, this is the person I could honestly mourn about

Dennis Ritchie: the giant whose shoulders we stand on

Ritchie didn't invent the curly-bracket syntax—that came from Martin Richards' BCPL. But the C programming language, which he called “quirky, flawed, and an enormous success,” is the basis of nearly every programming and scripting tool, whether they use elements of C's syntax or not. Java, JavaScript, Objective C and Cocoa, Python, Perl, and PHP would not exist without dmr's C. Every bit of software that makes it possible for you to read this page has a trace of dmr's DNA in it.

 

[agarwalro]

An unsung hero! RIP!

 

[jliedeka]

He was way more influential than Steve Jobs but his name isn't well known to non-programmers.

Jim

 

[darien87]

Oh yeah? What about ACSII, Fortran and Pascal?????

I have no idea what I'm talking about, I just know random names of computer languages.

There was a girl in my dorm in college named Pascal. What kind of uber-dork name's their kid after a computer language?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Complexity, Why Steve Jobs Got More Coverage Than Dennis Ritchie... And What That Says About The Patent System | Techdirt

 

[avnetguy]

A sad day indeed.

C was the first programming language I learned and I still use it today. I have a first edition K&R around here somewhere.

Steve

 

[GoFastr]

RIP Dennis.