This is the guy

[Blinocac200sx]

That technology users should really be mourning:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/busines...s-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies-40094176/

Without his work on Unix and C, we wouldn't have Windows or OSX or IOS or Android. But he probably won't get the press coverage Steve Jobs got.

 

[fustigate]

THANK YOU! I barely saw this new this morning. I *hate* the fanboys weeping over Jobs and this man barely gets his obit published.
I don't recall Jobs getting a Turing award!

 

[KOPBET]

And "B".

 

[Blinocac200sx]

Very true.

 

[Buddhaman]

The problem is that those who invent are often forgotten to those who sell. Steve Jobs was more of a TV salesman than an inventor of anything significant.

 

[HMFIC]

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[Twmaster]

When I heard the news yesterday I was profoundly saddened.

He and Brian Kernighan truly changed the world.

 

[KOPBET]

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131.165.160.

 

[vvvvvvv]

The problem is that those who invent are often forgotten to those who sell. Steve Jobs was more of a TV salesman than an inventor of anything significant.

This.