From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RF8KN-0002zz-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B98921C2F2; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 856EB21C1C0 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2011 17:43:07 -0000 Received: from p54851549.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.21.73] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 15 Oct 2011 19:43:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Das0hRthDakbtnlwAqfqKiYYvdCFT2q5odwO5cH ZqvLGvd2GFNyyJ Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:43:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:43:06 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie Message-ID: <20111015174306.GD3088@solfire> References: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 20a262c09d4f1adebd9bee27e6d7ed80 Jonas de Buhr [11-10-15 19:16]: > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : >=20 > > 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". > >=20 > > If you're not insanely rich, nobody cares if you die. It's not about= =20 > > how much you contributed to human society. It's about how much money= =20 > > you made. >=20 > i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows > who steve jobs is, thats why his death makes front page.=20 > average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C.=20 >=20 It is, as Dennis Ritchies said: "Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius =E2=80=93 or at any= rate a programmer =E2=80=93 to understand and appreciate the simplicity." (Source:"http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Unix-ist-einfach-zum-Tode-v= on-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o