Jay Chong

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

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.

[XRPayNet @XRPayNet]

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[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

"When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen...... and that makes things happen."

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

Slacking = $lacking

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis Don't say No to me pls

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis No expectations = No life

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis Do it RIGHT the 1st time.

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis I've tried that many times, it doesn't help. Finding a good husband could be easier.

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis I missed Bobo Bebe.

[Jay Chong @jaywalking27]

@proasis Great!! The law of attraction.