printf("RIP Dennis Ritchien");

I remember diligently referring to his classic book "The C Programming Language" when I was learning C.


Wired's tribute to him:

Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on -- including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs. ... It's really hard to overstate how much of the modern information economy is built on the work Dennis did.

C --> Unix --> Mac OS X --> iOS

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