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    Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with...
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  • general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features...
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    initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming...
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  • Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may possibly be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis Ritchie speculated...
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    Belle. He won the Turing Award in 1983 with his long-term colleague Dennis Ritchie. Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. When asked how he learned...
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    development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. Initially intended for use inside the Bell System, AT&T...
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    to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first...
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    Foreword". The Bell System Technical Journal. Bell Laboratories: 1902–1903. Dennis Ritchie; Ken Thompson (1974), "The UNIX time-sharing system" (PDF), Communications...
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  • Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie for the original versions of UNIX. It is an extension of an earlier macro processor, m3, written by Ritchie for an unknown...
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    Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna – decided to redo the work, but on a much smaller scale. In 1979, Ritchie described the group's...
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    by Nokia in 2016. Its alumni include people like William Shockley, Dennis Ritchie, Claude Shannon and Willard Boyle. In 1880, when the French government...
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    Kernighan and Ritchie (Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie) The C Programming Language (book), a book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie K&R C, the...
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    UNIX source code in 1975, in response to Ken Robinson's 1974 query to Dennis Ritchie at Bell. Bell Labs was a subsidiary of AT&T, due to the 1956 Consent...
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  • The feature's creator didn't give it a name, however: From: "Ritchie, Dennis M (Dennis)** CTR **" <dmr@[redacted]> To: <[redacted]@talisman.org> Date:...
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    (NRAO). C, an early systems programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973. Smalltalk (mid-1970s)...
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  • Foley, Blaze’s sister James Ourso as Pool Player #2 David Kallaway as Dennis Ritchie Montgomery as T.J. Wyatt Russell as Glyn Jenn Lyon as Cinnamon Martin...
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  • p. 132. Retrieved 30 January 2015. Ritchie, Dennis (26 October 2000). "alt.folklore.computers: BSD (Dennis Ritchie)". Retrieved 3 July 2014. McIlroy,...
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    2008. Retrieved January 20, 2009. Dennis Ritchie (October 26, 2000). "alt.folklore.computers: BSD (Dennis Ritchie)". Archived from the original on July...
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    his early collaboration with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. This collaborative and open philosophy lives on today. Dennis was also a member of the historic...
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    645. Thompson and other Bell Labs employees, such as Ravi Sethi and Dennis Ritchie, played the game on the system. GECOS, however, used an "interactive...
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    1cBSD as the basis for the 8th Edition. In a Usenet post from 2000, Dennis Ritchie described these later versions of Research Unix as being closer to BSD...
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  • operating system was conceived and implemented by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (both of AT&T Bell Laboratories) in 1969 and first released in 1970...
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    in 1969, at AT&T's Bell Labs, in the United States by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. First released in 1971, Unix was...
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  • dedication says: "To Ken and Dennis, without whom this book would not have been possible.", referring to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, the creators of Unix...
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    Nefarious (Charles Lescewicz) – bass, vocals (1984–present) Dennis the Menace (Dennis Ritchie) – drums (1984–present) Corporate Death (Lance Lencioni) –...
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  • the "i" in "inode". In 2002, the question was brought to Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie, who replied: In truth, I don't know either. It was just a term that...
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    participants in the field, including the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award, in honor of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language...
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  • government publication The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie White Book of Rhydderch, manuscript of Welsh folklore White Book of...
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  • "distributed as the C compiler by Bell Labs... with the blessing of Dennis Ritchie." Being one of the first compilers that could easily be adapted to output...
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  • language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language...
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