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October 13, 2011

Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer

by Laura Domela

Dennis Ritchie 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. via Boing Boing

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