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 1RF5X9-0004mw-OP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:48:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D5421C0F6; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C65F21C063 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5271B4021 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:47:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.909 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.909 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.516, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id i-MddGUETC5q for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9791B4014 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RF5Vu-0005D0-LX for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:47:02 +0200 Received: from athedsl-373982.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.12.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:47:02 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373982.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:47:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373982.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d42d81debd5dcd19d67304db717fde85 On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, 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". 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.