From: meino.cramer@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:43:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111015174306.GD3088@solfire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-15 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-15 11:33 [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie luis jure
2011-10-15 12:10 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-15 19:50 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-15 12:26 ` Matt Harrison
2011-10-15 12:31 ` Matt Harrison
2011-10-15 12:51 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-15 14:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-15 17:11 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-15 17:43 ` meino.cramer [this message]
2011-10-15 18:17 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2011-10-15 18:46 ` Mick
2011-10-15 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-10-16 20:03 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-16 21:41 ` luis jure
2011-10-16 21:54 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-16 22:14 ` luis jure
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