Death:
Dennis Ritchie with Doug McIlroy (left) in May 2011
Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.[2] First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike.[3][4] The cause and exact time of death have not been disclosed.[19] He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease.[2][3][20][21][22]
Legacy:
Following Ritchie's death, computer historian Paul E. Ceruzzi stated:[23]
Ritchie was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work everywhere inside.
In an interview shortly after Ritchie's death, long time colleague Brian Kernighan said Ritchie never expected C to be so significant.[24] Kernighan told The New York Times "The tools that Dennis built—and their direct descendants—run pretty much everything today.”[25] Kernighan reminded readers of how important a role C and UNIX had played in the development of later high-profile projects, such as the iPhone.[26][27] Other testimonials to his influence followed.[28][29][30][31]
At his death, one commentator, compared the relative importance of Steve Jobs and Ritchie, concluding, "[Ritchie's] work played a key role in spawning the technological revolution of the last forty years—including technology on which Apple went on to build its fortune."[32] Another commentator said, "Ritchie, on the other hand, invented and co-invented two key software technologies which make up the DNA of effectively every single computer software product we use directly or even indirectly in the modern age. It sounds like a wild claim, but it really is true."[33] Another said, "many in computer science and related fields knew of Ritchie’s importance to the growth and development of, well, everything to do with computing,..."[34]
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Dennis Ritchie with Doug McIlroy (left) in May 2011
Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.[2] First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike.[3][4] The cause and exact time of death have not been disclosed.[19] He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease.[2][3][20][21][22]
Legacy:
Following Ritchie's death, computer historian Paul E. Ceruzzi stated:[23]
Ritchie was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work everywhere inside.
In an interview shortly after Ritchie's death, long time colleague Brian Kernighan said Ritchie never expected C to be so significant.[24] Kernighan told The New York Times "The tools that Dennis built—and their direct descendants—run pretty much everything today.”[25] Kernighan reminded readers of how important a role C and UNIX had played in the development of later high-profile projects, such as the iPhone.[26][27] Other testimonials to his influence followed.[28][29][30][31]
At his death, one commentator, compared the relative importance of Steve Jobs and Ritchie, concluding, "[Ritchie's] work played a key role in spawning the technological revolution of the last forty years—including technology on which Apple went on to build its fortune."[32] Another commentator said, "Ritchie, on the other hand, invented and co-invented two key software technologies which make up the DNA of effectively every single computer software product we use directly or even indirectly in the modern age. It sounds like a wild claim, but it really is true."[33] Another said, "many in computer science and related fields knew of Ritchie’s importance to the growth and development of, well, everything to do with computing,..."[34]
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