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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2011-10-15 14:47:07
Message-ID: j7c6cr$ov$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote:
> On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote:
>>
>> hello boys [1],
>>
>> i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that
>> i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit).
>>
>> i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent
>> death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the
>> development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but
>> affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate
>> for the lack of echo of these news in the media, by dedicating some time
>> to celebrate his memory and express our gratitude.
>
> I agree,
>
> 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.



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