Dennis Ritchie-Father of C rests in peace

Ritesh Warke

The father of C, creater of C programming Language and the co-creator of Unix Operating System is found dead at age of 70 at his home in New Jersy. Dennis Ritchie has worked for about 4 decades at Bell Laboratories.He started his service from days when he was a Harvard doctoral student and retiered in 2oo7.

Dennis Ritchie was a "You Should Be Working" type of person.With his dedicated hard work he managed to create C programming language in 1972.C language was the foundation for Unix, the operating system Dr. Ritchie helped develop with Bell colleague Kenneth Thompson. He named his creation C because programming language that came before it was called B.

Dr. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1983— an early recognition of what would be an enduring contribution to technology, said Tim Bergin, a computer language historian and professor emeritus at American University.
In 1998, they both were awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for their invention of UNIX operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age.

This great soul was born in 9th sept 1941 in Bronxville, N.Y. He was got his scientific approach from his father,exelence was in his blood.His father Alistair Ritchie also worked at Bell and co-wrote a book on switching circuits.

Before resting in peace Dennis Ritchie developed C programing language and gifted it to the world also he left his knowledge in the form of book “The C Programming Language” which was co-written by itself Father of C.