Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie has died

tlambert | October 14, 2011

Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix, has died. John Mashey writes: Dennis was an old friend, and I'd heard this yesterday from Doug McIlroy. See this for how Dennis, Steve Bourne and I evolved my PWB stuff into UNIX V7's environment variables. Dennis in particular suggested the idea of just making them a 2nd argument list, which kept most of it out of the kernel and kept simple semantics. Fortunately, Dennis got a Computer History Fellow Award a while back, among others. While sad, I'd like to remember that Dennis had fun, as with Rob Pike in this prank on Arno. Dennis has…

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