Dennis Ritchie died, one of the creators of UNIX and the C language

In the US, Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and one of the developers of the UNIX operating system, passed away at the age of 70 years.

About the death of Ritchie said on his page on the social network Google+ his colleague Robert Pike (Robert Pike). He pointed out that the programmer died at home after a long illness. The portal CrazyEngineers as the date of death Ritchie calls October 8.


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Ritchie graduated from Harvard University with degrees in physics and applied mathematics and in 1967 began working at Bell Labs. Until 2007, he served as lead researcher at telecommunications company Lucent Technologies, to which Bell Labs was joined in 1995.

In the early 1970s, Dennis Ritchie, along with programmer Kenneth Thompson, developed the C programming language. Introduced in 1973, C has been widely used to date and has influenced many more modern languages. Ritchie as the creator of C also made a great contribution to the creation of the UNIX operating system.

In collaboration with Brian Kernighan, Ritchie wrote the C Programming Language, which is considered to be the classic C language tutorial. The textbook was published in 1978 and was translated into many languages, including Russian.

For his workings, Ritchie was awarded the Turing Award, the Richard Hamming Medal (Richard W. Hamming Medal), which is awarded by the American Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), and the National Medal in Technology and Innovation. In 1999, it was presented to the programmer by US President Bill Clinton.

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