Every single person in this world owes to this person a "thank you", even if he/she does not know who this man is. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941) was an american computer scientist. He is not like Steve Jobs nor Mark Zuckerberg as he did not became a famous individual appearing in every single newspaper and definitely he did not became one of the richest man on the planet. He worked quietly, practically, humbly yet profoundly. He had exerted such a significant impact on the world of programming and technology, that it is impossible to imagine our today's lives without his inventions.
If you have ever used a smartphone, browsed a website, watched a TV, typed on a laptop, done programming, accessed an Internet or even used an ATM - then you have touched something Dennis Ritchie helped to create.
History of Programming
In 1950s, it was the initial stages of development of programming world, with the first ever computers and programming languages such as Assembly and Fortran being developed and advanced. Everyone was adopting new technological trends as programming was a brand new trend for people that no one was familiar with. In 1960s, as computer programs progressed significantly, world needed some decent operating system and an efficient programming languages, as in those times people were primarily using Assembly, which was extremely sophisticated low-level programming language. It was not portable and mobile, meaning that it was nearly impossible to run programs written in this language in other machines.
