boingboing.net wrote:Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post.
He was the designer and original developer of the C programming language, and a central figure in the development of Unix. He spent much of his career at Bell Labs. He was awarded the Turing Award in 1983, and the National Medal of Technology in 1999.
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He will be remembered, even in that distant future era when C and Unix are no longer in use.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Matrix, as if millions of null pointers were suddenly de-referenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
