Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow. Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he âhad hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.â Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest. Ritch
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