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Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (born 1941)
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American computer scientist known for Unix
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the Association for Computing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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General-purpose programming language
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