Dennis Ritchie The Tribute :

Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs.

The Dennis Ritchie created-

·C (programming language) on which many currently used languages and technologies are based.

·Unix a multiuser operating system. Several workalikes (commonly referred to as Unix-like systems) have been developed based on Unix's design. Some of these follow POSIX standards, again based on Unix.

·Unix Programmer's Manual (1971)

·The C Programming Language (book) (sometimes referred to as K&R; 1978 with Brian Kernighan)

 

The C language is widely used today in application, operating system, and embedded system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages. Unix has also been influential, establishing concepts and principles that are now precepts of computing.

“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,” Pike tells Wired. “The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel — that pretty much the entire Internet runs on — is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. And all of the network hardware running these programs I can almost guarantee were written in C.

 

“It’s really hard to overstate how much of the modern information economy is built on the work Dennis did.”

But The Thing Which Make Me Feel Bad For Him is :-