After the death of Steve Job last week, the passing of Dennis Ritchie has gone largely unnoticed outside of the IT community. And yet, in his quiet way, Mr. Ritchie was probably more important than Jobs, especially if you're a software developer or other IT insider. In short, Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language and, in cooperation with Bell Labs colleague Ken Thompson (now an engineer at Google), created the Unix operating system.
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