Founder C-language and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie died

Dennis Ritchie, one of the founders of the C programming language, and is active in the development of the Unix operating system, is at seventy years of age died. Ritchie won the 1983 Turing Award for his pioneering work.

Computer scientist and software developer Ritchie was a long time working at the famous Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center. The American stood at the basis of the development of the programming language C. He wrote the ‘bible’, The C Programming Language. The C language is still today the basis of many software and programming language has had much influence on other programming languages.

Ritchie was also active in the development of the Unix operating system, along with his colleague Ken Thompson. According to Ritchie was co-operation within an operating system crucial. Unix was a multi user model. The American also introduced concepts that he in the C language developed by Unix. In the seventies, grew up Unix to a dominant operating system.

In 1983 received Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s Turing Award for their work in the field of operating systems, and the development of the programming language C. President Clinton gave Ritchie in 1999, the national medal of technology for his achievements in the area of Unix and C.