Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.
- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.
He built a language that fit in kilobytes.
50 years later, it runs everything.
Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.
Every iPhone. Every Android.
NASA’s deep space probes.
The International Space Station.
> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.
If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.
He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.
This Legend deserves to be celebrated.
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
― Karl Popper
@JoanaCotar@gsflairarcorde1 Den von Dir hergestellten Kontext?
Muss man wirklich auf jeder noch so furchtbaren Gewalttat seine politische Tütensuppe aufwärmen?
Nicht nur, dass der ÖRR Blog aus einer Reportage von 2025, 46 Sekunden zu einem Mini-Clip so zurecht schneidet, damit er sich anhört, als bezöge er sich auf den totgeschlagenen Zugbegleiter 2026 - man lügt auch die Aussage um.
Diese Behauptung ⬇ stellt ÖRR Blog auf, nicht NDR.