RIP Dennis Ritchie (DMR), 1941 — 2011

14 Oct 2011

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Dennis Ritchie passed away couple of days back (on October 8, 2011).

As Tim Bray has written summerised, this world would have been different, if Dennis Ritchie had not created 'C' and helped inventing UNIX.

I don't know, if I would be what I am today without 'C' programming-language — the first programming language I learnt, used to solve problems, and wrote programs.

These days, I don't write pure'C' code except when I am debugging something or in need to write some utility executables. But UNIX (in some-form) is part of my day to day life.

Thanks to you, Dennis Ritchie Sir. May your soul rest in peace.

I regret for not thanking you when you were alive. Why we don't do that when people are alive?