Dennis Ritchie
After the death of Steve Jobs, the world of information technology again lost one of the legendary figures. Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and UNIX operating systems, has died at the age of 70 years.
Dennis Ritchiedied after suffering pain for years. The death of Dennis Bell Labs was announced on Thursday night. The president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Jeong Kim said, the work of Dennis will always be remembered and be an inspiration to the world of programming.
The expression of grief over the death of Ritchie also expressed by leader Google programmers, Rob Pike. Before Google, Rob Pike became a student of 20 years Ritchie at Bell Labs. Therefore, we value the work of Rob Ritchie computing world today.
According to Rob Pike, C programming language is the greatest work of Ritchie. Initially, C is made to software systems and networks. But now, the C programming language is also frequently used in the development of software applications.
“Almost everything on the web with two things. C and UNIX Browser is written in C. The Unix kernel written in C. The web server written in C, or if not, then the use of C + + or Java, which is the development of C, “said Rob Pike.
Also, along with Kenneth Thompson, Ritchie created UNIX operating system. Later, the UNIX operating system that was adopted in Linux.
Not just Linux, UNIX variations also inspire the development of other operating systems. Among other things, by adopting the UNIX operating system from Apple in the development of A / UX, Domain / X and Darwin (Apple modified BSD kernel and applies on a Mac OS / X).
QNX operating system is also called an operating system based on UNIX. QNX operating system is a new property of Research In Motion, which will be used for BlackBerry products.
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Thanks to its services, especially in the development of UNIX, with Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. Ritchie also received the National Medal of Technology presented by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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