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Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (died 2011)

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Dennis Ritchie

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…
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C (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains widely used and influential. By design, C gives the programmer relatively direct access to the features of the typical CPU architecture; customized for the target instruction…
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September 9

Day of the year

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 113 days remain until the end of the year.
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