Essays Tagged: "Dennis Ritchie"

Where did UNIX come from and why are there different versions of UNIX?

ectcalled MULTICS. While working for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1969 and 1970, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchiebegan to develop their own single-user, multi-tasking small operating system and they ... , this operating system that they were developing did not run on any machine made by Bell!)In 1973, Dennis Ritchie rewrote the UNIX operating system in C (a language he had developed.) And in 1975, th ...

(1 pages) 125 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Evolution of Programming anguages.

Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz)*LOGO (1966 by Seymour Papert)*Pascal (1970 by Niklaus Wirth)*Ada (1977 by Dennis Ritchie)*C (1980 by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan)*Turing (1984 by Ric Holt and James Co ... -2 was created, there was another masterpiece that was gaining popularity tremendously. This was C. Dennis Ritchie developed it in 1972 while working in New Jersey. Almost all of the features of Pasca ...

(4 pages) 168 1 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Analysis Of The C++ Programming Language

, and Smalltalk (Stroustrup, 1991). It was based on the C language developed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie used to code the UNIX operating system. In 1983, C++ was coined as the new name based ...

(6 pages) 132 2 4.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages

History of Computer Programming Languages

rd ed.). Boston: Course Technology.CImportant Dates:C was developed in 1978 at Bell Laboratories by Dennis Ritchie and Brian W. Kernighan. Many of the ideas found in the C programming language come fr ... again, ultimately leading to the programming language we know today as C.Contributors:Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Brian W. Kernighan in 1978 at Bell Laboratories as a high-level language for low- ...

(7 pages) 165 0 4.4 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages

History of UNIX

the Bell Laboratories under AT&T. Its development is primarily associated with Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The reason behind its development was, remarkably enough, because Ken Thompson had d ... st documentation of the new operating system was the "UNIX Programmer's Manual" by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. In the second edition of the manual, it was mentioned that the "number of Unix insta ...

(4 pages) 79 1 4.3 Jul/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Hackers Thought

, cross-file editing, and the mouse; Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation; Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, the driving force behind Bell Laboratory's computer science operati ...

(6 pages) 22 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Python Versus C

g languages: C/C++ and Python.The maturity of C/C++ and Python differs great in regards to history. Dennis Ritchie, who used it to re-write the Unix environment, developed C, a predecessor of B, in th ... p://www.strout.net/pythonvslisp, January 1999.6. Kris A. Jamsa, The C Library. McGraw-Hill, 1985 7. Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Development of the C Programming Language," in Thomas J. Bergin & Richar ...

(5 pages) 15 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers