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From: davidc@vlsisj.VLSI.COM (David Chapman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: C question
Keywords: C, UNIX, famous
Message-ID: <15289@vlsisj.VLSI.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 04:28:52 GMT
References: <4615@eos.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidc@vlsisj.UUCP (David Chapman)
Organization: VLSI Technology Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <4615@eos.UUCP> chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (C. J. Guest) writes:
>Everybody in my class has been teasing me because I don't know who
>Dennis Richly is.  He supposed to be a big programmer or something.
>
>Help?

Dennis Ritchie is one of the two programmers who defined the C language
(the original, definitive book on C was co-authored with Brian Kernighan,
hence the references to "K&R" C).  Along with Ken Thompson he designed
UNIX.

That's why he's famous.
-- 
		David Chapman

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