Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

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Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

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Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...

There are trends in software, and in software development, that everyone deplores… but for many people, it is terribly bad manners to point fingers at the projects doing it. We find it refreshing to ...

Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. Ritchie, 70, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley ...