http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/fat...way-at-age-70/
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Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson.
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Today, C remains the second most popular programming language in the world (or at least the language in which the second most lines of code have been written), and ushered in C++ and Java; while the pair’s work on Unix led to, among other things, Linus Torvalds’ Linux.
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And Apple's OS X and iOS, and Google's Android, of course.
One of the true pioneers of the modern computing age.