{"id":809,"date":"2011-10-13T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2011-10-18T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T18:27:28","slug":"dennis-ritchie-1941-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/809\/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/news\/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies\/6314570\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/dennis_ritchie_small.jpg' alt='Dennis Ritchie in Memoriam' class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>In Memoriam: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/news\/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies\/6314570\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)<\/a><br \/>Developer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_C_Programming_Language_%28book%29\" target=\"_blank\">C programming language<\/a>, co-creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNIX\" target=\"_blank\">UNIX<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Few individuals have been as influential in the field of computers as Dennis Ritchie.  Programmers have used his language, C, to author much of the world&#8217;s best software.  UNIX, an operating system Ritchie first co-developed in 1969, led the way for all modern interactive operating systems, including MS-DOS, Linux, and Mac OS X.  UNIX still forms the conceptual and technological basis of most server operating systems in use today.  Ritchie will be richly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam: Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)Developer of the C programming language, co-creator of UNIX Few individuals have been as influential in the field of computers as Dennis Ritchie. Programmers have used his language, C, to author much of the world&#8217;s best software. UNIX, an operating system Ritchie first co-developed in 1969, led the way for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42,21,27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-memorials","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}