(October 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Don't know who the hell he was - but it does seem he was highly beneficial to the human race in the short time he lived - and for that, I can say, Rest In Peace Sir.
As said above Dennis Ritchie designed UNIX and the C Programming Language.
UNIX:
An operating system which has had a very large influence on Linux, the BSD, Minix, and a few others as well. How is this relevant? At least half of all internet servers run on Linux (probably more). Most of the top 500 fastest computers in the world are running some sort of Linux distribution. Apple's Mac OSX is a variant of BSD (specifically, a variant of Darwin).
The C Programming Language:
Just about every operating system known to modern man is written in C, or has been at some point. Many other programs are also still programmed in C. C also had C++ as a spinoff - and even more programs are written based on C++.
Bottom Line:
You'd probably still be sitting in a basic command-driven environment without C - if you still had a computer at all.
