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 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.