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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies ...

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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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Dennis Ritchie

Computer Scientist

Born: 1941-09-09

Died: 2011-10-12

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist and winner, with Kenneth Thompson, of the 1983 Turing Award. He created the C programming language and, with Thompson, the Unix operating system, which have had pervasive and lasting influence on subsequent programming languages and operating systems.More