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47. Dennis Ritchie

Author : Gerard O’Regan

Published in: Giants of Computing

Publisher: Springer London

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Abstract

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who is famous for developing the C programming language at Bell Labs. He also codeveloped the UNIX operating system with Ken Thompson.

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Footnotes
1
One common error in C programs is writing “=” instead of “==”. This totally alters the meaning of the statement.
 
2
The semicolon in Pascal is used as a statement separator, whereas it is used as a statement terminator in C.
 
3
It is easy to write a one-line C program that is incomprehensible. The maintenance of poorly written code is a challenge unless programmers follow good programming practice. This discipline needs to be enforced by formal reviews of the source code.
 
Literature
[KeR:78]
Kernighan B, Ritchie D (1978) The C programming language, 1st edn, Prentice Hall software series. Prentice Hall, Reading
Metadata
Title
Dennis Ritchie
Author
Gerard O’Regan
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Giants of Computing

Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-5339-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4471-5340-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_47

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