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Dennis Ritchie

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“Dennis Ritchie was a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix.

Dennis Ritchie passed away in early October, 2011. We remember him here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1761787. Read The New York Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/technology/dennis-ritchie-programming-trailblazer-dies-at-70.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=dennis%20ritchie%20obituary&st=cse

Dennis was posthumously voted into Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame in 2013.

In 1972, Dennis Ritchie developed the compiled programming language C as a replacement for the interpreted language B which was then used in a worse is better rewrite of UNIX.

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