Dennis Ritchie dies, the "programmer" Grieving

After the departure of Steve Jobs, the information technology world again lost an important figure. He is Dennis Ritchie, an American computer expert, who died on Wednesday (12/10/2011) at the age of 70 years.

Perhaps no one knows the name of Dennis Ritchie. He was not as famous as Steve Jobs. However, his services in the history of the computer world no less than Steve Jobs. Ritchie is the one who makes the programming language C.

Ritchie created the C language is the basis for today's modern operating systems, such as Linux, Apple MacOS, and Android. Without Ritchie, may have no computers and applications as you wear today.

As quoted from CNet Kompas.com, Ritchie's death was first obtained from old colleagues Ritchie, Rob Pikedi, through a posting on Google +. The news was later confirmed by the Bell Labs, the first place where Ritchie started his career.

Apart from being the inventor of the C language, Ritchie is also famous for his writings in a book called The C Programming Language. This book is a "horoscope" mandatory for programmers around the world. He also contributed a great deal in the development of the Unix operating system, this makes it to receive the Turing Award in 1983 (with Kenneth Thompson).

Ritchie is a role model and teacher for all the programmers / developers around the world. His departure is certainly a big loss for them and of course the world of information technology.

Good-bye, Ritchie.