Dennis Ritchie, father of C and Unix reported dead

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Submitted by sl4shd0rk on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:26AM

sl4shd0rk writes "Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness."
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