Dennis Ritchie

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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.

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Notable works: The C Programming Language

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... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

Dennis Ritchie

Approach

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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it…

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Advice

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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that…

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Approach

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At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it…

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Death

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It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas…

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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability…

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Computers

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The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well…

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Care

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A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system,…

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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say…

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