Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and C language, dies

In the United States, Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and one of the developers of the UNIX operating system, passed away at the age of 70.

The death of Ritchie was announced on his page on the Google+ social network by his colleague Robert Pike (Robert Pike). He indicated that the programmer died at home after a long illness. Portal CrazyEngineers as the date of death Ritchie calls October 8.




Ritchie graduated from Harvard University with degrees in physics and applied mathematics and in 1967 began working at Bell Labs. Until 2007, he held the position of lead researcher in the telecommunications company Lucent Technologies, to which Bell Labs was joined in 1995.

In the early 1970s, Dennis Ritchie, along with programmer Kenneth Thompson, developed the C programming language. Introduced in 1973, C is still widely used and has influenced many more modern languages. Ritchie, as the creator of C, also made a great contribution to the creation of the UNIX operating system.

In collaboration with Brian Kernighan (Brian Kernighan) Ritchie wrote the book "C programming language", which is considered a classic guide to the C language. The textbook was published in 1978 and has been translated into many languages, including Russian.

For his work, Ritchie was awarded the Turing Prize, the Richard W. Hamming Medal, awarded by the American Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), and the National Medal for Technology and Innovation. It was handed to the programmer in 1999 by US President Bill Clinton.

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