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Ritchie created the C programming language and co-developed Unix with Ken Thompson at Bell Labs.
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Ritchie created the C programming language and co-developed Unix with Ken Thompson at Bell Labs.
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- Dennis Ritchie — Computer History Museum — Fellow citation and biography
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