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RIP Dennis Ritchie, 70, Author Of “C,” Co-Author Of UNIX OS (2’19”)

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44 Responses to “RIP Dennis Ritchie, 70, Author Of “C,” Co-Author Of UNIX OS (2’19”)”

  1. NooBite says:

    Thanks for “C” Sir.

  2. Dan says:

    Thanks, Dennis. (incidentallly, while “C” is a language, UNIX is an OS.)

  3. Saravanan Baskar says:

    Thanks for You “SIR” to have the great innovation about the “C” language to the world. At last the whole world looks upon “C” first to move on to another

  4. Devakumar says:

    Thank you sir for the ‘White Book of C’

  5. Vinod Kumar Suthar says:

    Thank you sir for your great contribution in computer programming and invention of world’s most popular language C..

  6. Datta Bankar says:

    Thank You sir .You give C language as will as UNIX operating system to world.

  7. Ray Pride says:

    Thanks so much, fixed.

  8. Diego Viola says:

    Thanks for your contributions to the world. You will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.

  9. Pandhari says:

    Felt very bad when got this news .i felt very bad than when steve jobs passed away.This guys who co-created world’s first best OS still Maximum OS uses its kernel…….there is no news of this one …steve job news was everywhere..:(

    RIP Dennis Sir

  10. Harish Rajanna says:

    Sir, Thanks a lot for your contributions to the world.
    May your soul rest in peace sir.

  11. Nimish Nayak says:

    RIP Dennis Ritchie

    Thanks for your vital contribution to the computer programming world..
    C to me will always remain my first love in the programming world 😉
    thnx dude.. u totally rock!! 🙂

  12. Sujas Ali says:

    Great man.. Great contribution to students for brilliant start.. Excellent direction to developers.. and Energetic machine communicator… that’s C.. Thank you my dear Great Man..

  13. Florin says:

    C si UNIX. Doua fundamente. Dumnezeu sa te odihneasca.

  14. Naga D Nookala says:

    For all the technological advances in software industry the roots would almost lie in a student starting or being associated with ‘C’ language!

    I am proud to be using C language and has always admired on Dennis Ritchie and his team for the simple yet complex design of a programming language like C.

    RIP Dennis Ritchie Sir!

  15. I still have my original K&R. Thank you for ‘C’, Sir. RIP.

  16. JJ says:

    My first love is c language..
    and honor Dennis Ritchie a lot.
    He is my real life hero.

  17. anil says:

    RIP. we missed a pioneer.

  18. Thakur Hansraj says:

    RIP,’C’ is still my favourite language

  19. Vaibhav S. Dafne says:

    Dear Sir,
    I was very scared in the came of programming language till I read book The C Programming Language. After that I got confidence to do some programming in C. And I am Proud to do programming C in UNIX. You gave a great contribution to the programming World.
    May God give peace to your SOUL.
    Rest in Peace!(

  20. K says:

    C – Catalyst for the new era programming languges.
    Thank you Sir, for being the Catalyst. RIP

  21. Jayvardhan says:

    Dennis Ritchie, आपल्या आत्म्यास चिरशांति लाभों ….

  22. Sagar says:

    Sir, you are the father of this TECHNICAL revolution. Hats off to your work and intelligence. RIP Dennis Ritchie…

  23. Venkat says:

    Thank you Sir! We are proud to be using your invention!We are making a living out of your contribution! Long live your name! RIP for all the hard work you have done in your life!

  24. Vijay says:

    C has been a catalyst to the way I live and work today.

    You have impacted the lives of Crores of people with your contribution.

    May your soul RIP.

  25. Pradeep Kumar T says:

    To the man who gave us the wonderful language to speak to computers…
    To the man who taught computers how to manage our work so well…
    To the man who gave The UNIX Way…
    …and changed the way programmers think!

    To Dennis Ritchie…
    We pay our last tribute.
    May your soul RIP.

  26. CB says:

    printf(“Goodbye World”);

    Dennis Ritchie RIP

    Thanks for pointing the way.

  27. Marco says:

    You were a genius.
    We’ll never forget what you taught us.

  28. Bharath G M says:

    RIP Dennis Ritchie. Sad 🙁

  29. sankalp says:

    its really sad 🙁 …. he gave foundation language to world of CS.

  30. cubic kay says:

    thank u dennis ritchie

  31. Maxx says:

    C was my first language. It has taught me so much.
    Thank you so much sir.
    I hope your headstone says;
    return 0;

  32. Shekhar says:

    World has lost a gr8 computer scientist. RIP Sir…

  33. md says:

    thank u sir for ur great innovation i.e c language

  34. Dmitry says:

    Dennis, Thank you for C and UNIX

    RIP

  35. RIP!!!! Dennis Sir, thanx for your gr8 innovations… you made the revolution in the programming field….

  36. Suman Ghosh says:

    The world has lost a great man… thank you sir for the one programming language we loved to grow up with… RIP

  37. May your soul rest in peace “C” master.
    Regards
    Saravanan

  38. Abhijeet Deb says:

    Thank U sir,
    For the great great innovations which drove our career to make us engineers..
    Without you computer language would not have been developed as far as present scenario..

  39. Fred Janon says:

    Thank you for your great work and book. RIP…

  40. Disha says:

    Thank u Mr. Dennis Ritchie…Your inventions have given technology a new direction.. The simplicity and power of C language have indeed given rise to coding lovers..Thank you once again..!!

  41. Tony Constantinides says:

    I learn “C” in 1986 in a file structure class in college. I marvel at the simplicity and powerful I/O and the short and sweet nature of ‘C”. If it was not for “C” I would not had a 20 year career in programming. Thank you for your wonderful contribution to programming and the excellent Unix OS. You truly changed my world. RIP you wonderful scientist!

  42. Enrico Detoma says:

    Thank you Mr. Dennis Ritchie for your immense contribution to software technology.
    May you rest in peace.

  43. Sagar says:

    Mr Ritchie was one of the creators of the hugely influential Unix operating system and the equally pioneering C programming language.
    May his soul rest in peace in heaven RIP…

  44. Binu says:

    Needless to say, your contribution has changed the world immensely. Millions of computers using the unix kernel is a testimonial for that and many more applications using THE ‘C’ programming language (and ofcourse, offshoots of ‘C’)…

    May your soul rest in peace…

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