Dennis Ritchi died [c and unix]

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the CO programming language C and a key developer of the Unix operating system, died. It is also known as the co -author of the book "Programming C", it is usually reduced by the names of the authors to "k/r" or "k & r" (Kernighan and Ritchie).

His colleague Robert Pike, who said that Ritchi had died at home after a long illness, reported about the death of Ritchi in Google+. As the date of death is called October 8th. The cause of death is still unknown.

The achievements of Ritchi were quite appreciated by the professional part of humanity. In 1983, Ritchi and Ken Thompson received the Turing Award for the development of the general theory of operating systems, in particular for Unix. In 1990, together with Thompson, he was awarded the Richard Hamming medal "For the creation of the Unix operating system and the programming language C".

And on April 27, 1999, Ritchi and Thompson received the US national medal for achievements in the field of 1998 technologies and innovation from the President of Clinton, and with such a solemn formulation: “For the invention of the Unix operating system and the language of programming language, which led to huge advancements in computer hardware, software and network systems and stimulated the growth of industry as a whole, thus leaving leadership. America in the information age. "

Ritchi's home page in Bell Labs is inaccessible, but you can see her cache .