EVIDENCE 03 CHRONICLE GA2-240202501-AA1 KEVIN JAIR FERER MORELOS Apprentice JOHN FREDY RESTREPO SANCHEZ Instructor NATIONAL LEARNING SERVICE ANTIOQUIA REGIONAL AGRIBUSINESS MINING TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIST IN SOFTWARE ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT 2758338 2023 Dennis Ritchie MacAlistair I decided to do the chronicle talking about Mr. Dennis Ritchie (born in 1941) who was anAmerican computer scientist whose contributions were the beginning of the technologicalrevolution we live today. He is known as the "Father of the C Language", because heoriginally initiated the development of the C programming language in 1969 and with hislong time colleagues, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan, created the Unix operatingsystem.Ritchie never saw programming as a problem but rather as a puzzle to be solved. By 1973Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten the Unix operating system, using "C" instead ofmachine language, and had done massive testing on it.It was so easy to use that programmer around the world were switching to smallermachines to do their programming, giving up the larger computers they thought theywould never want to leave.Bell Labs became Lucent Technologies Inc. and began selling Unix to developers, creating anew division for the company. Ritchie has attributed his success in part to the fact that he was not computer literate andtherefore had an open mind to possibilities that others might not have thought existed. His great contributions to computer science have laid the foundation for the developmentof new technologies such as the GNU/Linux or Mac OS X operating systems, and the birthof new programming languages such as C++ and Java. He passed away on October 12,2011 at the age of 70. He told Investor's Business Daily: "The interesting thing is not the programming itself. Butwhat is important is what you can achieve with the end results." And if that's the case,then Ritchie has had a major effect on most, if not all, computer users today.
