🗿Person_Of_The_Day #16

in personoftheday •  7 years ago  (edited)

Dennis Ritchie
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Hey there! Are you an Apple fan? GNU/Linux user? Do you use smartphone or tablet? Do you like the internet?

Meet Dennis Ritchie, with Ken Thompson. He co-invented the Linux operating system and C programming language. Which all those technologies depend on.

For this, he was awarded a International Medal of Technology. Which is like computing Oscar, and a turning a award, which is the Noble Prize of Computer Science

He died a week after Steve Jobs, which you know about.
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