A sad day today; we find out that Dennis Ritchie has passed away.
You probably never heard his name and almost certainly wouldn't recognise a picture of him if you saw it... but he was instrumental in the development of so many modern aspects of your life.
Two titans of the computer industry gone within ten days. One almost everyone will of heard of. The other only likely to be known to the computer science geeks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8830332/Dennis-Ritchie.html
You probably never heard his name and almost certainly wouldn't recognise a picture of him if you saw it... but he was instrumental in the development of so many modern aspects of your life.
Two titans of the computer industry gone within ten days. One almost everyone will of heard of. The other only likely to be known to the computer science geeks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8830332/Dennis-Ritchie.html