Dennis Ritchie (DMR) was the designer and implementor of the C language, and (with Ken Thompson) developed the Unix operating system. Unix and C were developed hand in hand: C was modified to make it easier to develop Unix, and Unix gained new utilities as they became implementable in C.
For myself, C wasn't the first language I used, but the one I've used for the longest time so far.
It's also the most influential language in the history of programming languages, almost every language designed and developed since the 1980s owes something to C.
Even apart from this, DMR seems to have been a really nice and exceptionally intelligent man. The world is poorer for his loss.
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