Seems that it the time of year that we lose some great people of the past. Today saw the passing of Dennis Ritchie another of the great minds in the computer world who helped shape the computer systems we use today. This time it is a computer scientist who worked in the area of operating systems and programming languages.
He is best known for being the creator of the Unix operating system and the C programming language on which are based a vast number of modern technologies. In fact many systems like the Apple Macintosh Computers still today have Unix at the core or of the operating system and it is from Unix that Linux at the core of Android operating system was derived. He is one of those names that few will have heard of but without his work we wouldn't be were we are today. The Unix is the operating system of choice for the internet and it kicked off the open source software movement which is so influential today. He was a inspirational man and like many great men he was humble and gracious.
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