Dennis Ritchie, The Creator of Unix and C is No More, Dies at 70

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Another major upset for technology world as the Creater of programming
language C and and co-Creater of Operating system unix, Dennis Ritchie
dies at 70.Dennis Ritchie died last weekend at the age of 70 after a long

illness.

The news was  reported on Wednesday and confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs in a

statement listed below by president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs,  Jeong Kim.

"Dennis Ritchie, was well loved by his colleagues at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs,

and will be greatly missed. He was truly an inspiration to all of us. We would

like to express our deepest sympathies to the Ritchie family, and to all who

         have been touched in some way by Dennis."


The C language still rules when it comes to performance i.e. the speed of

execution and considered as major milestone in programming.


Read more about the programming genius Dennis Ritchie Here


RIP Dennis Ritchie