Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on

October 14, 2011 12:33

It's been over a week now that Steve Jobs passed away and the tributes to the co-founder of Apple have been rich and incessant. In contrast, the tributes to Dennis Ritchie don't match up. But they should. And then some.

"When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn't even know who he is,' says Rob Pike, theprogramming legend and current Googler who spent 20 years working across the hall from Ritchie at the famed Bell Labs.

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