In article , Cameo
said...

I just read the news of Ritchie's death. He was a co-inventor of the C
programming language and instrumental in the development of the Unix OS
in the Bell labs. These two developments gave a tremendous boost to the
proliferation of computer applications and formed the basis of later
software and OS improvements. With his passing a giant left us.

A giant indeed, on whose shoulders many public people have stood.

Goodbye, World!