Ritchie is the father of the C programming language . Dennis used C to build OS , the UNIX that so much is built on . ` On Wednesday evening , with a post to Google+ , Pike announced that Ritchie had died at his home in New Jersey over the weekend after a long illness , and though the response from hardcore techies was immense , the collective eulogy from the web at large does n't quite do justice to Ritchie 's sweeping influence on the modern world . ` We 're all standing on Dennis Ritchie ' shoulders , '' expert says .
Ritchie is the father of the C programming language . Dennis used C to build OS , the UNIX that so much is built on . `` We 're all standing on Dennis Ritchie ' shoulders , '' expert says .