Hi again,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, jhall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
Thanks for passing along the article, I hadn't heard about this. Sad news.
We're losing some big names in technology. I appreciated that the article
mentioned that Dennis's influence was as great as Steve Jobs, just less
visible.
That's an understatement. I mean, somebody would have to be really
clueless to not give mad props to dmr. C is still #1 or #2 (depending
on where you read your stats) in overall language popularity. I blame
GNU. ;-)
However, dare I take this opportunity to mention that both Jobs and
Ritchie have decent Wikipedia pages, but our beloved Pat has none!
Sadly, I'm not really that knowledgeable about him, so I don't think
I'd write a very good one. Jim? Anybody? Surely we can give him a
decent legacy. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani
Well I finally did it. Took a few hours, and I really didn't know Pat
well enough (online) to do him justice, but I sure tried very very
hard.
It's kinda weird creating a page from scratch, esp. since Wikipedia is
so annoying about bureaucracy, strict rules, revert wars, etc. They
also delete a lot of articles for not being notable. However, I'm
hoping Linux w/ DOSEMU and the fact that it's written in uber-famous C
(hi, dmr!) will help, in case the obvious fact that MS-DOS was hugely
successful isn't enough anymore for today's snobs.
(Wikipedia is a great idea but seems to be a bit insane in some ways.
They better not argue it's not notable enough. It's certainly more
notable than the AC Transit Bus Fight, which links to a big page
describing (euphemism) mothertrucker, as if anybody didn't already
understand or gives a crap.)
In case it isn't obvious, feel free (for some of you in the know) to
edit / improve / fix this page for Pat. I just think it's only fair
to give him a proper send-off! I mean, if DOS-C/FreeDOS isn't
notable, what the hell are we all doing here??
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