Dennis Ritchie co-creator of C and Unix dies at 70

Dennis Ritchie co-creator of C and Unix died at the age of 70 . Compared to the media hullabaloo and deityfing of a marketing man a week ago whose most significant contribution was a one mouse button and a device that sucked people's money and freedom , Ritchie's contribution to the world included C a language that can be said as the most important development since the Turing Machine in my opinion. C was not only a language , it was philosophy , a way to deal with problems and a beautiful way to tackle them . the Unix OS had the same principles which lead to its widespread adoption as the OS on which the internet was built and whose successors Linux and BSD still pave the way for development and innovation . Ritchie will be deeply missed by the programmer and hacker community and by a guy like me who discovered a gem that taught him what it means to write beautiful programs called The C Programming Language , 2nd Edition.