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--- title: Dennis Ritchie type: Person tags: [c, unix, bell-labs, programming-languages] --- # Dennis Ritchie Creator of the C programming language and co-creator of Unix. ## Observations - [name] Dennis Ritchie - [role] Computer scientist and language designer - [expertise] Programming language design - [expertise] Operating systems - [born] 1941 - [fact] Created C in 1972 at Bell Labs - [fact] Co-authored "The C Programming Language" with Brian Kernighan ## Relations - works_at [[Bell Labs]] - created [[C Programming Language]] - co-created [[Unix]]