Dennis Ritchie died

John "Maddog" hall said it all:

With Dennis Richtie there would be no OSX, no GNU/Linux, no C, no ...

So if you are just looking at your elegant and designed, colorful, clicking rainbow OS, remember for a second that under that layer, it's something from him inside.

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