A Tribute to Dennis Ritchie - Universal scraps

It was in year 2001 after joining for B.Sc. Computer Science I was hearing about C .Our first semester subjects include C++. But I had no idea what C++ was. One thing I came to know from my class mate was that it evolved from C . At the time when I was joining for the degree , I hadn't even done a single line of code or familiar with a computer . My friends had started showing me programs that generate graphic lines and their names rotating along with them while I watched with dropping jaws .The teacher started the first week class with writing

#include<stdio.h>
and
#include<conio.h> ,

she didn’t even bother about telling as what the stuff was . I by hearted the program codes for printing numbers and text reverse , Fibonacci series (was complicated ) and finding the largest of three numbers . The first semester result came with 29 point someone (influenced by Five point someone) marks for me in C ++ which required 35 to pass. We had C in the second semester and I had to write a supplementary exam along with that . C and C++ made a better combination. I had heard many time my friends that they are crabbed with this language and blaming its founder . Oh it has a founder , so I came in search for that person and found it was Dennis Ritchie . The C programming Language was also a rare piece in our library .

Days and Years passed and everything changed,me too became a Software developer from a country boy who had seen a computer for the first time when he was at eighteen. Iconic products iPod , iPhone and iPad evolved , Steve Jobs became famous (inspiring , motivating ) more or equal to the company Apple , Facebook out smarted Orkut , Twitter came out with 140 character micro blogging and a lot more…. .

Steve Jobs passed away on October 5 , 2011 and there was a lot of mourning (iMourning) . Google posted a link on their home page that takes you to Apple site , a rare instance .Its first time Google is showing such a tribute to a rival company founder or for first time a link wass appearing on their home page.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie passed away on October 12, 2011 and I felt it like it was unnoticed. When Jobs passed away magazines, media ,everyone had something to say about Steve. May be the younger generation don’t know even who Ritchie was , because he hadn’t developed something that is physical and may be not an industrialist , but he had contributed even more to the computing industry .

The two things that change the industry are the first of its kind portable programming language , the C.

The Apple’s Objective C is a sister of Rictchie’s C just alike Stroustrup C ++ which is object oriented .Even C sharp (C#)of Microsoft is another casting of C . My favorite java has syntax similar to C.

The second contribution is the development of UNIX operating system where Linux Trovalds get inspired to create LINUX .

So Ritchie was a master contributor to the computing industry with lot a lot more .

I bow on this moment .