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TECNÓLOGO ANÁLISIS Y DESARROLLO DE SOFTWARE

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2023
 chronicle

Dennis Ritchie MacAlistair

I decided to do the chronicle talking about Mr. Dennis Ritchie (born in 1941) who was an

American computer scientist whose contributions were the beginning of the technological

revolution we live today. He is known as the "Father of the C Language", because he

originally initiated the development of the C programming language in 1969 and with his

long time colleagues, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan, created the Unix operating

system.

Ritchie never saw programming as a problem but rather as a puzzle to be solved. By 1973

Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten the Unix operating system, using "C" instead of

machine language, and had done massive testing on it.

It was so easy to use that programmer around the world were switching to
smaller

machines to do their programming, giving up the larger computers they thought they

would never want to leave.

Bell Labs became Lucent Technologies Inc. and began selling Unix to developers, creating a

new division for the company.

Ritchie has attributed his success in part to the fact that he was not computer literate and

therefore had an open mind to possibilities that others might not have thought existed.

His great contributions to computer science have laid the foundation for the development

of new technologies such as the GNU/Linux or Mac OS X operating systems, and the birth
of new programming languages such as C++ and Java. He passed away on October 12,

2011 at the age of 70.

He told Investor's Business Daily: "The interesting thing is not the programming itself. But

what is important is what you can achieve with the end results." And if that's the case,

then Ritchie has had a major effect on most, if not all, computer users today.