Dennis Ritchie has died. He was one of the inventors of Unix and C. Without those, there would be no Mac OS X and no iPhone App development tools (well not in Obj-C anyway).

I suspect the mainstream media will not be quite all over this.

I’d just like to say that his book on the C programming language is one of the few old programming books I’ve hung on to. Because it’s so good.

http://blog.tagxedo.com/rip-dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-58975