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 1RF9HF-0008Nr-Q0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:48:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4835121C23A; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E5C21C22D for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so4362282wwg.10 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:46:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=taWpHeTFnjMSp0U2OuYqIGY6Nhh6uRuFW6HfDLyafM8=; b=tz4dcy3AuFxb3PS0Werhk3PwIwB2nigIOykLT2mZCAbTewp5yZeq8dzwMGvmx9uGcU 3Zy+P6ltKw3IL7CWG5NdDOpRW2jtB4iOP69xxIpYxhPK9BLBbfbevbw54pkbbh5xSajA dQWh3r7TWFX9LgDZdwBshWPej8HUOL/cOt4ow= Received: by 10.227.170.130 with SMTP id d2mr4556110wbz.78.1318704386580; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ei16sm21258417wbb.21.2011.10.15.11.46.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:46:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:46:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet> <20111015174306.GD3088@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20111015174306.GD3088@solfire> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6009166.a2BmZUiLg6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110151946.32534.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f6c23597d44938a9bff42b4e6d0b2db3 --nextPart6009166.a2BmZUiLg6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 15 Oct 2011 18:43:06 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Jonas de Buhr [11-10-15 19:16]: > > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 > >=20 > > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : > > > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > > > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > 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 > > > how much you contributed to human society. It's about how much money > > > 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. > > average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C. >=20 > It is, as Dennis Ritchies said: >=20 > "Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius =E2=80=93 or at a= ny rate a > programmer =E2=80=93 to understand and appreciate the simplicity." >=20 > (Source:"http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Unix-ist-einfach-zum-Tode= =2Dv > on-Dennis-Ritchie-1360366.html)o It's in the media, but unlike Jobs it is under Technology, not under=20 'celebrities'. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart6009166.a2BmZUiLg6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6Z1QgACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYUQwCdEqp03pqe+8wyB8uoP4axg/pg fnMAoPJ1KbXL5YsKRt9iO80qilcBTo4M =Yx+Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6009166.a2BmZUiLg6--