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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
From: Andrew Tchernoivanov <tchernoivanov () gmail ! com>
Date: 2011-10-15 18:17:24
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> 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.
Back at my University only very small number of people knows, who's Richie
(although GNU/Linux systems are very popular) and what he had done.
And it's very painful to hear from a person with Apple laptop phrases like
"C? UNIX? I don't like UNIX."
Nothing must be forgotten. People must know persons who made technologies to
what they are now.
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM, <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-von-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o
>
>
>
>
>
--
С уважением,
Черноиванов Андрей
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<div>> i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows<br>> who steve jobs \
is, thats why his death makes front page.<br>> average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't \
care about C.</div> <div><br></div>Back at my University only very small number of people knows, \
who's Richie <div>(although GNU/Linux systems are very popular) and what he had \
done. <div><br></div><div>And it's very painful to hear from a person with Apple \
laptop phrases like "C? UNIX? I don't like UNIX."</div> <div><br></div><div>Nothing \
must be forgotten. People must know persons who made technologies to what they are \
now.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:meino.cramer@gmx.de">meino.cramer@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Jonas de Buhr \
<<a href="mailto:jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net">jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net</a>> [11-10-15 19:16]:<br> \
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300<br> > schrieb Nikos \
Chantziaras <<a href="mailto:realnc@arcor.de">realnc@arcor.de</a>>:<br> ><br>
> > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote:<br>
> > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the<br>
> > > folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is<br>
> > > very sad on both counts, I am getting annoyed by the opinion that<br>
> > > "Richie might have helped popularise C, but SJ invented the<br>
> > > iPhone...which is 10x more useful".<br>
> ><br>
> > If you're not insanely rich, nobody cares if you die. It's not about<br>
> > how much you contributed to human society. It's about how much money<br>
> > you made.<br>
><br>
> i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows<br>
> who steve jobs is, thats why his death makes front page.<br>
> average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>It is, as Dennis Ritchies said:<br>
<br>
"Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius – or at any rate a<br>
programmer – to understand and appreciate the simplicity."<br>
<br>
(Source:"<a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Unix-ist-einfach-zum-Tode-von-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o" \
target="_blank">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Unix-ist-einfach-zum-Tode-von-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br> ,<br> <br>
</div></div>
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