Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!mailrus!ames!amdcad!weitek!practic!vlsisj!davidc 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 Lines: 17 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 {known world}!decwrl!vlsisj!fndry!davidc vlsisj!fndry!davidc@decwrl.dec.com