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Looking back on this, Ritchie downplayed his role in the computing revolution he sparked. Talking to <i>The Economist</i> in 2004, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.economist.com/node/2724348" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">he suggested</a> that many of the improvements he came up with while developing C "looked like a good thing to do", implying anyone in the same place would have done the same thing.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 17px; ">Stroustrup calls it</h3><p style="margin-top: 0px; ">However, Bjarne Stroustrup, who joined Bell Labs as a new graduate after Ritchie – where he designed and implemented C++ – saw it differently. "If Dennis had decided to spend that decade on esoteric math, Unix would have been stillborn," Stroustrup said.</p>
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