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 1RF3Lf-0000mD-Gm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:28:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 450B021C211; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from binky.genestate.com (li267-248.members.linode.com [178.79.147.248]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7833C21C213 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (pathfinder.genestate.com [212.21.116.18]) by binky.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 983156EE54 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:26:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C26B28ED91 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:26:07 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=genestate.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:mime-version:user-agent:from:date:message-id:received :received; s=default; t=1318681567; bh=Sx9er3X209AHuQn60Z+Vm2+7f Wroxo1pKbwK0XWsuVg=; b=uQIU01PwVZMZtHF1XqjIYbyF/N/7HEV8wd+NDmbRV +BmgUtgIsi9OZc+MuagD10TvpQX35YtWSB3Hw4Qsyg7PVUvm1hVJiTgkh73WVGgh 8IlTmBrCmCykcq1V9yNr18CmHXC0RIsMieUDpdo9SOtPDb1xIyK9xsb7m7kofEJI mg= Received: from genesis.genestate.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (exodus.genestate.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id rifD4KncgApp for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:26:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.194.217.55] (unknown [10.194.217.55]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2DAD928EB88 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:26:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:26:40 +0100 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.15 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie References: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7263dbf6e61f2558852ef39cbc89cbc2 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 the news of the recent > death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the > development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but > affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate > for the lack of echo of these news in the media, by dedicating some time > to celebrate his memory and express our gratitude. I agree, 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". I swear I'm dealing with a bunch of cretins here :P