Crónica Inglés.

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CRÓNICA INGLES

YARLEY ORTEGA PERALTA

INSTRUCTORA: MELISSA PADILLA

TÉCNICO: ATENCIÓN INTEGRAL AL CLIENTE

FICHA: 2758385

2023
 I decided to chronicle Mr. Dennis Ritchie (born in 1941) who was an American computer
scientist whose contributions were the beginning of the technological revolution we are
experiencing today. He is known as the “father of the C language” because he originally started
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 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 run massive tests on it. It was so easy to use that programmers the world
over were switching to smaller machines to do their programming, giving up the larger
computers they thought they never wanted 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 computing have laid the foundations 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: “It’s not the schedule itself that’s interesting. But
what’s important is what you can achieve with the bottom line.” And if that’s the case, then
Ritchie has had a huge effect on most, if not all, of today’s computer users.