A few days a go, a Very Important Person in the computers world have died. Even that the news has been talk only about an Important Person, and many people can think the Steve Jobs have made a revolution in computers, Dennis Ritchie, in my opinion, have more important goals to receive the "very" in the vip status.
Without his work on Unix (and previously on Multics) together with Ken Thompson and Brian Kerninghan, the Mac operation system wouldn't be possible. Yes it's true that Mac have had many good ideas on usability, but it has many lines written in C, a high level programming language designed by Ritchie and the contribution, again, of Kerninghan. Almost all the computer scientist have on mind Kernighan&Ritchie, and the ones who doesn't probably have problem.
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