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Dennis M. Ritchie

Born

in Bronxville, New York, The United States

September 09, 1941

Died

October 08, 2011

Website

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/

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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He is best known for creating the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.
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	The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.44 avg rating — 11,443 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Dennis M. Ritchie (Foreword) 4.34 avg rating — 1,732 ratings — published 1992 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lions’ Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code by John Lions, Dennis M. Ritchie (Foreword), Ken Thompson (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Je?zyk Ansi C by (Tå‚Uma Rian W Kernighan; Dennis M Ritchie; Danuta Kruszewska; Marek Kruszewski, Dennis M. Ritchie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le langage C de Peter Aitken (20 septembre 2012) Broché by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
― Dennis M. Ritchie

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“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity”
― Dennis M. Ritchie

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