Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, died Oct. 8 after a long illness. –
Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, died at home after a long illness. He was 70 years old.
Google engineer and former colleague Rob Pike publicly posted the news on Google+ Oct. 12, writing, “I trust there are people here who wil…