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 1RF3QJ-0001mh-Ii for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:33:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 792B421C14D; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from binky.genestate.com (li267-248.members.linode.com [178.79.147.248]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AD021C0B5 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (pathfinder.genestate.com [212.21.116.18]) by binky.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13AAD6EE56 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:32:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF9C28ED91 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:31:24 +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=1318681884; bh=2PdNbQajzCSv2hbYObvIlmV89 lh+5ZKyaDdwj2/7VN0=; b=QHhwLmn9x5HB7e4KrmW1U80HSF2KhHVTvkja+STDz xxkg1O+WDCzn+oSKLz4XrxVm3ib0UA17lvCi38w4BtVbsCqEP6/FhdPsKg6wgM/7 q1XQAM/aySvVI56oloovOHKBSfEXwPIuBhZydM8XfeCo5nz5pYiKyTePCHrYKbm+ VY= 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 kKiL6Y2xQKsj for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:31:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.194.217.55] (unknown [10.194.217.55]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9119328EB88 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:31:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4E997D3E.5050109@genestate.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:31:58 +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> <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> In-Reply-To: <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4af3c68c99492e4d655ce613a6ebab33 On 15/10/2011 13:26, Matt Harrison wrote: > 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 > I think I might have understated his part in C, sorry. Trying to do too many things at once :(