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.
