Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language...

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Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of effectively every software system we use on a daily basis died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.

TOP 20 Dennis Ritchie Quotes

1. “The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”
2. “UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
3. “Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.”
4. “C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
5. “I’m still uncertain about the language declaration syntax...”
6. “I’m not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.”
7. “For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.”
8. “A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.”
9. “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.”
10. “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.”
11. “Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.”
12. “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.”
13. “I’ve done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.”
14. “From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it’s clear that people should be looking beyond it.”
15. “Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.”
16. “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.”
17. “A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.”
18. “Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.”
19. “The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...”
20. “Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.”