Dennis Ritchie, C & Unix

Dennis Ritchie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Creator of C programming language and co-creator of Unix Operating System
died 2011-10-8, at age of 70.

C is still one of most popular languages, after 40 years, and if we count its derivatives (C++, Java, C# etc), majority of programming today is C-based.

Sage goes for Unix: Mac and iPhone is directly based on Unix, Android is based on Linux that is based on Unix, even Windows is "POSIX compliant", that means compatible with basic Unix APIs: most computers today, from smallest to largest, are based on Unix.

Bottom line, most of programs and computers today are based on "ideas DNA" of this one person, and his countless followers.

In today's technology world, that could be more influential that creators of major religions...

@ New York Times

@ PC Mag

@ars technica

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    printf("RIP, dmr.\n");
    return 0;
}