He was the inventor of the programming language known as C and co-inventor of the operating system Unix, another innovation that came from Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early ’70s. When Dr ...

Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more areas than you’d think. For one, Unix is written in C. Originally written in assembly ...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely ...

Ritchie was better known as a co-creator of Unix, but he also invented the C programming language back in 1971. Jeong Kim, President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs confirmed his passing earlier today.

as a change significant enough to warrant renaming the programming language, and B became C. C escaped Bell Labs in much the same way that Unix did. It helped that the PDP-11 rapidly became one of ...

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures. During the 22-year lifespan of ...

A programming language lets the programmer express ... operating systems and commercial applications. Unix was the first OS written in C. C++ (C plus plus) is the object-oriented version of ...

[Brian Kernighan] is a legend in the world of Unix and computing ... known as the co-author with [Dennis Ritchie] of The C Programming Language, first published in 1972 and still being used ...

Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.