RIP Dennis Ritchie

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Underscore

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This is sort of old news already, but Dennis Ritchie died recently. He is best known for designing C, which is probably the most widely used system programming language, and for working on the original version of Unix. His effect on technology has been enormous, influencing nearly every modern computer system and piece of software.

Here's a picture of him receiving a medal which I stole from wikipedia:

 

dragonfliet

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psssshh, whateva. Steve jobs was a hype man. Way more important than the code that literally everything was built on.
 

HugoMarques

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So... When do you people start talking dirt about Dennis like in that-other-guy-who-revolutionized-computing-and-recently-died's thread?