printf("Goodbye Dennis Ritchie \n");

Dennis Ritchie -1941-2011

The man who directly made the world learn 'C' skipping A and B. His contribution outweighs that of Steve Jobs and if he doesn't get equal importance than it would be injustice. 


Its been over 40 years and if we happen to pick a device with microchip - Washing machine, TV, Windows, Linux, Computer Games, Iphone, IPod, compilers of modern languages are either completely or partially made in C or its derivative. And so firms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle etc still depend on his creation.


Each of us has a return value, but only very few of us are able to know what  return value we need to pass back. And when our run-time ends, we hand ourselves over to the system.


A person's true importance and influence cannot be measured by how many websites post it or newspapers print it. 
So to the departed soul 
printf("Goodbye Dennis Ritchie...RIP \n");