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Juan Sebastian Parra Goyeneche

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 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.