15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today.

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15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today.

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