In less than a week , the globe has lose two tech innovator . Last week , we mournedthe passing of Steve Jobs , and now we say goodbye to computer scientist Dennis Ritchie who also recently pass away .
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Ritchie , or dmr as he was called in programming lap , work most of his life at Bell Laboratories where he helped produce the blow programming language and worked extensively on the Unix operating system . Without his piece of work , many of the calculation product we have today would not exist . Apple , whose OS X operating system is base on Unix and whoseObjective C computer programing languageis settle in C , has benefitted greatly from Ritchie ’s work .
Ritchie also co - wrotethe definitive bible on C programming(a must have for any programmer ) and has been awarded the Turing Award , the National Medal of Technology and , of late , the Japan Prize for his work in the field of calculator science . He kick the bucket at base over the weekend of Oct 8/9th from an unidentified illness . He was 70 - years - old . [ Google+andBoing Boing ]
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