> 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, <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonas de Buhr <[email protected]> [11-10-15 19:16]: > > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 > > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: > > > > > 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
