Douglas McIlroy
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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having origina
McIlroy at the Japan Prize Foundation in 2011
Dennis Ritchie
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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language
Douglas McIlroy
…prompting development and influencing Ken Thompson's B programming language and Stephen Johnson's Yacc parser-generator. McIlroy also took over from Dennis Ritchie compilation of the Unix manual "as a labor of love". Particularly, he edited volume 1 of the manual pages for Version 7 Unix. According to Sandy Fraser…
Ritchie in 2011
Ken Thompson (left) and Dennis Ritchie (right), in 1973
Ritchie conversing in a chalet in the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City
Ritchie, standing in the middle, in a striped sweater, behind Steven Bellovin in a baseball cap