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	Interview with Dennis Ritchie
		Ritchie: Yes, although there were plenty of projects that were either working on their own operating systems or using manufacturers' systems [inaudible]was clearly a very fertile [inaudible].
		Ritchie: Most ideas in the system, and actually most of the working out of the ideas were his, but Thompson was in it from the start, and [inaudible] at least in some phases we sort of worked together, and periods in which we sort of wrote programs together.
		Ritchie: It was just a matter of wanting to, most of the programs are either straightforward and interactive commands that we type, or perhaps they derived it.
	www.princeton.edu /~hos/mike/transcripts/ritchie.htm (7444 words)

	Dennis Ritchie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix.
		Dennis has also contributed to the two official successors of Unix and C: the Plan 9 operating system and the Limbo programming language, both of which build upon his previous work.
		Dennis Ritchie is often referred to as "DMR" in various Usenet newsgroups (such as comp.lang.c); he is the "R" of the KandR.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Ritchie (464 words)

	Dennis Ritchie « Devenix’s Weblog
		Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix.
		Ritchie is best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as ‘K/R’; or KandR (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
		Ritchie’s invention of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson, has placed him as an important pioneer of modern computing.
	devenix.wordpress.com /2007/10/26/dennis-ritchie (311 words)

	Dennis Ritchie : Freebase - The World's Database
		Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix.
		Ritchie is best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as 'K/R' or KandR; (in reference to the authors Kernighan and Ritchie).
		Ritchie's invention of C and his role in the development of Unix alongside Ken Thompson, has placed him as an important pioneer of...
	www.freebase.com /view/en/dennis_ritchie (219 words)

	Dennis Ritchie - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941-) is a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and UNIX.
		C is still widely used today in application and operating system development and its influence can be seen in many more recent programming languages such as C++, Java, C# and JavaScript.
		Dennis Ritchie is often referred to as "DMR" in various Usenet newsgroups (such as comp.lang.c); he is the "R" of the K&R.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /dennis_ritchie.htm (535 words)

	Dennis Ritchie - Vicipéid
		Is eolaí ríomhaireachta é Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (rugadh 9 Meán Fómhair, 1941) a bhfuil aithne air mar gheall ar a thionchar ar ALTRAN, an teanga ríomhchlárúcháin B, BCPL, C, Multics, agus UNIX.
		Fuair Ritchie céim ó Harvard i bhfisic agus matamaitic fheidhmeach.
		Tá an aithne is fearr ar Ritchie mar chruthaitheoir na teanga ríomhchlárúcháin C agus príomh-fhorbróir an chóras oibriúcháin Unix, agus mar chomh-údar an leabhair deifnídigh ar C, The C Programming Language, ar a dtugtar de ghnáth KandR (tagairt do na húdair Kernighan agus Ritchie).
	ga.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Ritchie (178 words)

	RACING.UPS.COM - Test Truck Driver, Dennis Ritchie's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Ritchie got his start in stock car racing in a manner that has been similar for a number of the mechanics and crewmembers that work in the NASCAR garage.
		Ritchie jumped at the opportunity to work in stock car racing, and thus became one of the original Roush Racing team members working under respected crew chief Steve Hmeil.
		Ritchie was one of the guys hired to work on the part-time team effort.
	www.racing.ups.com /racing/team_members/attrack_crew/testtruckdriver_ritchie_bio.html (419 words)

	Programming Designs Forums / The Dennis Ritchie Interview (founder of C)
		The Dennis Ritchie Interview (founder of C) An interview with Dennis Ritchie famous for the founding of the C programming language and the co-inventor of the Unix operating system.
		Dennis Ritchie: At some point when I was an undergraduate in college (about 1960) I went to some non-course talks about computers that intrigued me, and I signed up for the regular (introductory) one-term course.
		Dennis Ritchie: As a general phenomenon, I think they're great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do.
	forums.programming-designs.com /viewtopic.php?id=599 (1118 words)

	Interviews : Interview with Dennis M. Ritchie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis: C++ benefited enormously from C, because C had a fairly large acceptance even before the growth of C++, and C++ could use C both as a base to build a new language and as a tool to create its compilers.
		Dennis: Finding a way (given the limitations of the time) to insist on what has been in the ANSI/ISO standard for some time: complete declaration of the types of function arguments, what the 1989 C standard calls function prototypes.
		Dennis: The Inferno work was the brainchild of Phil Winterbottom and Rob Pike, and it started just before the Java bandwagon (publicity machine) emerged.
	www.redhat.com /mirrors/LDP/linuxfocus/English/July1999/article79.html (2072 words)

	Computer Power User Article - Q&A With Dennis Ritchie
		Simply saying, "Dennis Ritchie co-developed Unix with Ken Thompson and then invented the C programming language" does no justice to the depth and significance of these accomplishments.
		Ritchie's list of awards and honors is lengthy, but the most recent was the U.S. National Medal of Technology, awarded in 1999 to both Ritchie and Thompson.
		Ritchie: It's really clear that if you want high performance, the way people are going now is not to make a small number of very, very fast machines but to glue together a lot of commodity machines.
	www.computerpoweruser.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/c0303/62c03/62c03.asp (2422 words)

	ITworld.com - The future according to Dennis Ritchie
		Dennis Ritchie: A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
		Dennis Ritchie: I really don't know the answer to this, except to observe that software is much harder to change en masse than hardware.
		Dennis Ritchie: At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
	www.itworld.com /Comp/3380/lw-12-ritchie (1777 words)

	Introduction to C Programming: Computer Centre: University of Leicester
		Ritchie and Thompson tried to move their applications software to other machines but discovered that while the translation was easy for the main body of the code, the operating system calls were more difficult.
		Ritchie set to work on the language problem, basing his design on another language called BCPL a systems implementation language invented in the UK in 1967.
		The switch to the PDP 11 and the need for a system implementation language for the next version of Unix set Ritchie to work on converting and extending B. The main change he made was the addition of data typing to accommodate the broader range of storage types and operations available on the PDP 11.
	www.le.ac.uk /cc/tutorials/c/ccccrant.html (1970 words)

	Turing Award 1983 - Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thomspon
		Dennis M. Ritchie was born in 1941 in Bronxville, N.Y. He received his entire education after high school at Harvard University, which may explain why he's done so well for himself.
		Along the way, Ritchie created the C programming language, whose successor - C++ - is probably the most popular language in use today.
		It is a tribute to the work Thompson and Ritchie accomplished that a 30 year old operating system, devised and built by a few people on a shoe-string budget, can outperform software created by some of the best software engineers working for the world's most powerful company.
	www.cs.wlu.edu /~whaleyt/classes/313/Turing/Jaschob-Ritchie-Thompson.html (1066 words)

	Unix.se - Interview - Dennis Ritchie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Ritchie: At some point when I was an undergraduate in college (about 1960) I went to some non-course talks about computers that intrigued me, and I signed up for the regular (introductory) one-term course.
		Dennis Ritchie: The single thing that I'm happiest about is that the notion of making the Unix system portable was mostly mine.
		Dennis Ritchie: As a general phenomenon, I think they're great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do.
	old.unix.se /article/articleview/950/1/24 (1080 words)

	Amazon.ca: C Programming Language: Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie: Books
		An indisputably classic computing text, Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for learning and using ANSI C. Written by the co-inventors of C, this concise tutorial has a well-deserved reputation for clarity and precision as it defines one of the most successful programming languages of all time.
		C was originally designed for and implemented on the UNIX operating sys-tem on the DEC PDP-1 1, by Dennis Ritchie.
		Dennis Ritchie is a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix.
	www.amazon.ca /Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/product-description/0131103628 (1608 words)

	Bell Labs’ Dennis Ritchie Receives 2005 IRI Achievement Award
		Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1968, focusing his research on the design of computer languages and operating systems.
		Ritchie's current research at Bell Labs focuses on further refining the standards and technologies for the C software language.
		Ritchie holds an undergraduate degree in physics, as well as masters and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
	www.alcatel-lucent.com /wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4y3cDcFSYGZzgH6kShiBvGOCBFfj_zcVP0gfW_9AP2C3NCIckdHRQAzW18m/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUMvNElVRS82X0FfN01U?LMSG_CABINET=Bell_Labs&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Features/News_Feature_Detail_000015&lu_lang_code=en_WW (429 words)

	Interviews : Interview with Dennis M. Ritchie
		Dennis Ritchie belongs to the second group of people.
		Dennis: C++ benefited enormously from C, because C had a fairly large acceptance even before the growth of C++, and C++ could use C both as a base to build a new language and as a tool to create its compilers.
		Dennis: Finding a way (given the limitations of the time) to insist on what has been in the ANSI/ISO standard for some time: complete declaration of the types of function arguments, what the 1989 C standard calls function prototypes.
	www.linuxfocus.org /English/July1999/article79.html (2072 words)

	Dennis Ritchie@Everything2.com
		Dennis Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York.
		Early in his career at Bell Labs, Dennis Ritchie worked on the MULTICS operating system, as well as the BCPL programming language.
		Today, Dennis Ritchie manaages the research group at Bell Labs that developed the Plan9 operating system.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=25272 (310 words)

	Dennis Ritchie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Ritchie was famous for his contribution to both the UNIX operating system and the C programming language.
		Dennis Ritchie studied physics as an undergraduate in Harvard University, on graduation he studied applied mathmatics at the same university.
		After his work on the inferno operating system Dennis was awarded with the U.S. National Medal of Technology for the development of the UNIX system.
	www.ibuiltthis.com /elpeter/Dennis_Ritchie.htm (199 words)

	Dennis Ritchie Biography \| World of Computer Science
		Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, on September 9, 1941, and grew up in New Jersey, where his father, Alistair Ritchie, worked as a switching systems engineer for Bell Laboratories.
		Ritchie's lifestyle at Bell was that of a typical computer guru: he was devoted to his work.
		When Ritchie and Thompson began working for Bell Labs, the company was involved in a major initiative with General Electric and MIT to develop a multi-user, time-sharing operating system called Multics.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/dennis-ritchie-wcs (1527 words)

	Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling
		Ritchie: The point of C (as distinct from its immediate predecessor B) was to take a language that was designed with word-oriented machines in mind and adapt it to the newer hardware that became available, specifically the PDP-11.
		Ritchie: I've learned that this is dreadfully hard, and that people involved with successful languages can become rabidly conservative no matter what their general inclinations.
		Ritchie: C (and the others for that matter) are simple in some ways, though they are also subtle; other, somewhat similar languages like Pascal are arguably simpler.
	www.gotw.ca /publications/c_family_interview.htm (11567 words)

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