What distinguished the Bell Labs team is that, from the beginning, they focused on doing things that had not been done before, and doing them with clarity. In the words of Arnold Ross, an American mathematics educator, they “thought deeply of simple things”.
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From The Economist article “Unix’s Founding Fathers”
Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C language and one of the key members of the team behind Unix, passed away yesterday at the age of 70.
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