Have you ever taking into consideration what type of world we live in right now? It is a cyber world full of great expansions, opportunities, innovative ideas, and technology. All most everyone has heard of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, alongside with Ben Ive. But does anyone hear of the people behind the scenes, or give any credit to them? Top programmers around the world such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Tim Berners-Lee develop important things that are needed for advancement in technology and they don’t get any recognition. For Dennis Ritchie, he helped build one of the most popular operating systems in the world, but made all by himself a compiler for his new programming language that is the basis for all hardware devices such as phones, machinery, computers, and etc,yet still gets hardly no attention. Although Dennis has shaped the cyber world into great success for the future and has certainly put more room to grow in years to come, he puts the digital era on the brink of exploding with new ideas and innovations.
Dennis Ritchie was born on September 9th, 1941 in Bronxville, N.Y to the parents of Jean and Alistair. His father Alistair was an engineer at Bell Labs while his mother was a Homemaker. Dennis and his family moved to Summit, NJ when he was a child. Ritchie ended up growing up attending high school in Summit. He continued his schooling at Harvard University where he studied Physics as an undergraduate and Applied Mathematics as a graduate. Ritchie received a Bachelor’s Degree in both of his Undergraduate and Graduate studies and many other advanced degrees alongside a PhD in Computer Science. Since Ritchie liked procedural languages better than functional ones, Dennis decided hi...
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...ed, his natural writing skills helped his elegant code become brought to life to form the technological advancement of his era and give loads of thinking for the next generation to come and add on or change something that will help the world grow.
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