RIP Dennis Ritchie

[Marco Leise]

I didn't know who he was. I wasn't even born when the interesting works of  
his life were released.

He and Ken Thompson developed the first Unix and wrote the programmer's  
manual for it as well as the book "The C Programming Language" (now I know  
where Andrei got the name for his book: title[4]++;). Ritchie, Thompson  
and Brian W. Kernighan were the inventors of C.

Considering all that forked from there, their work is still getting a lot  
of attention. C is still a de facto standard for embedded systems or as a  
base syntax for other languages. Linux would not be what it is today if  
Linus had no Unix to give him the inspiration for the kernel.

Thanks for sharing, Steven.