# Dennis Ritchie (@dennis-ritchie)

Dennis Ritchie was a Bell Labs computer scientist who created the C programming language and helped develop Unix.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Dennis Ritchie's public record._

## Topics

- [The C language](/@dennis-ritchie/c-language.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Technical legacy](/@dennis-ritchie/legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Unix](/@dennis-ritchie/unix.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bigbio1st.html
- blog: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/ritchie_1506389.cfm

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "dennis-ritchie", "question": "…"}`.