Linux/Unix

Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix & C, dies at 70

by Sunil Sonkar on October 13, 2011

in Linux/Unix

Father of Unix operating system and C programming language, Dennis Ritchie, died over the weekend at his home in Murray Hill, N.J. He was 70. His death was confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs in a message from the president of the company to its employees reading, “Dennis was well loved by his colleagues at [...]