How pitifully true this is for a man who co-invented and designed C and UNIX that are pivotal in revolutionizing computing in a way beyond imagination.
Essentially, any application/server/tool, be it big or small on today's computer, or any handheld smart device we haughtily show off, owe to C and UNIX and eventually to Dennis Ritchie big time!
The data structures he built into C are an epitome to high-level, object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java.
Take a bow sir, for I am one of such millions of engineers who are still benefiting from the open source revolution UNIX has paved way to.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
int main()
{
printf("GoodBye World!");
getch();
return 0;
}
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