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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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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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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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Dennis Ritchie(dmr) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.

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TIL that Apple’s macOS and iOS took their roots from Unix systems written in the C programming language, which was created by Dennis Ritchie in the early 1970s at Bell Labs (en.wikipedia.org)
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