The Father of C Language Dennis Ritchie Died





I think youngsters studying in software field might don't know who is Dennis Ritchie when he passed away from this world?

Dennis Ritchie the father of C Programming Language and co-founder of UNIX Operating System was died on Octomber, 12, 12011 (70 year). In last few days we lost two super hero of the Technology world, one is father of C language and other we all know the co-founder of the Apple. 

We all are currently living in era in which whatever the technology we are using the founder of that technology is also exist take example founder of java James Gosling, founder of Google and so on.

But as we all know the universal rule “Each and every thing has its lifetime”, even our global variable has a specified lifetime!

Let’s look backward the history of C programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie.

 

C language was developed by the Dennis Ritchie in 1970s at the Bell Laboratories, at that time C become more popular and considered as a modern and portable programming language.  C programming is procedure oriented programming (POP) language.

C language has its many advantages; it is imperative, structured language, easy to learn, it also allows low level access to memory, it provides rich set of keywords, it has larger set of inbuilt library functions for string manipulation, I/O operations and mathematical calculations. Now a day’s C becomes the primary language to learn for entering into the programming world.

Dennis Ritchie (standing) and Ken Thompson with a PDP-11, circa 1972 (Source: Dennis Ritchie homepage)

Brian Kernighan refines older C language and publish newer version known as “The C Programming Language”. In 1978, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan publish a book “The C Programming Language”, referred as K&R. The book contains discussion of many critical concepts of C programming language and still it is considered as an best text book to learn C language.

All modern languages such as C++, PHP, Java, C# has its root in C language. If you know the C you can learn C++ (Object Oriented Language) and if you know C++ then you can learn Java or C# very easily.

All BCA, B.Sc (IT), M.Sc(IT), MCA and Engineering students having C programming language in its first semester, so we can understand the importance of C language and its father.

I greatly thanks to Dennis Ritchie for giving such as great language C and due to their effort we are now software programmer and developing application in C++, Java or any other language.

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