Dennis Ritchie

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Vocabulary Term #575
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Dennis Ritchie
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(born September 9, 1941) American computer scientist, and inventor of the C programming language, which became the foundation for many later programming languages and systems, including Unix
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"Dennis Ritchie did a really good job when writing the C programming language in 1969, because it's still widely used today."