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Unix's founding fathers.

Dennis Ritchie, who has worked at the Bell Labs since 1967, is revered as the inventor of C, and, with Ken Thompson, as the co-inventor of Unix. However, both projects were, in fact, intensely collaborative. Dr Thompson had written C's immediate predecessor, a language known as B. And though Dr Thom...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 371; no. 8379; pp. 37 - 39
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 6/12/2004
Subjects:
Programming languages
Computer operating systems
Ritchie, Dennis M., 1941-2011
Thompson, Ken, 1943-
Pike, Rob
Torvalds, Linus, 1969-
Open source software
Kernighan, Brian
Research institutes
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