[gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net [11-10-15 19:16]: Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 Oct 2011 18:43:06 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net [11-10-15 19:16]: Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: