From: Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j7c6cr$ov$1@dough.gmane.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-15 17:12 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 [this message]
2011-10-15 17:43 ` meino.cramer
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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