Quote:Dennis Ritchie, 70, a computer scientist who changed modern technology by writing an elegantly simple computer programming language, was found dead at his home in Murray Hill, N.J., his former colleague Rob Pike said.
Man I remember at Uni learning the original K&R C, none of this new-fangle ANSI rubbish xD
But Kernigan and Ritchie were gods in computer science circles. Although many a student swore at the unintuitive Unix command shell, especially if you'd been brought up on VAX/VMS, lol. That was back in about 1990 I guess.