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Dennis Ritchie [1941-0] American

Rank: 101
Scientist, Computer scientist

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.

Computers, Technology

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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.		101
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.		102
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.		103
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.		104
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?		105
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.		106
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.		107
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.		108
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.		109
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.	Technology	110
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.		111
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.		112
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.		113
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.		114
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.		115
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.	Computers	116
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.		117
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.		118
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.		119
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.		120
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.		121

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