Dennis Ritchie Dead | Co-creator of Unix and C Passes away.R.I.P

Dennis Ritchie the co creator of the Language C and UNIX at the age of 71 after a prolonged Illness.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 8, 1941 — October 8/9, 2011) was an American computer scientist notable for developing C and for having influence on other programming languages, as well as operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.