bertlewirth comments on 15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today.

15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago

Damn. It’s been 15 years already. He died at a similar time to Steve jobs and jobs got all the news. Without Dennis, we may not have had many of the breakthroughs in technology we did

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