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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
From:       meino.cramer () gmx ! de
Date:       2011-10-15 17:43:06
Message-ID: 20111015174306.GD3088 () solfire
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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-von-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o





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