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15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today. (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago

Damn. It’s been 15 years already. He died at a similar time to Steve jobs and jobs got all the news. Without Dennis, we may not have had many of the breakthroughs in technology we did