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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
From:       Mick <michaelkintzios () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-10-15 18:46:21
Message-ID: 201110151946.32534.michaelkintzios () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 15 Oct 2011 18:43:06 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net> [11-10-15 19:16]:
> > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300
> > 
> > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>:
> > > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote:
> > > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the
> > > > folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is
> > > > very sad on both counts, I am getting annoyed by the opinion that
> > > > "Richie might have helped popularise C, but SJ invented the
> > > > iPhone...which is 10x more useful".
> > > 
> > > If you're not insanely rich, nobody cares if you die.  It's not about
> > > how much you contributed to human society.  It's about how much money
> > > you made.
> > 
> > i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows
> > who steve jobs is, thats why his death makes front page.
> > average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C.
> 
> It is, as Dennis Ritchies said:
> 
>     "Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius – or at any rate a
>     programmer – to understand and appreciate the simplicity."
> 
> (Source:"http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Unix-ist-einfach-zum-Tode-v
> on-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o

It's in the media, but unlike Jobs it is under Technology, not under 
'celebrities'.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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