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Taliesihne  Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
It probably wasn't a good idea to post this on a board where so many people work in Technology.
It was noticed.
And Jorrdan, there is beauty in code.
What I think is funny is that it took you ~6 months to post this Tenkly. Those of us that understood his impact were discussing this quite some time ago.
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Onslaught. Title: I've always wanted a title.
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Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
Taliesihne posted:
It probably wasn't a good idea to post this on a board where so many people work in Technology.
I agree with this, but I made a similar grip on other forums and FB and was met with a lot of apple-dork rage.
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Thugoneous Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
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SirGarth  Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-5-17 12:37:09
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
Jobs obsession was on the user experience, and his products went past hardware design to how people integrate technology into their daily lives, and generated enough purchasing power from their customer base to get the entertainment industry to rethink how they sell and distribute their products.
Steve Jobs also helped Pixar get off the ground.
Ritchie's contribution was no doubt crucial, but I'll admit I hadn't heard about him til I read about his passing in the New York Times and Slashdot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/technology/dennis-ritchie-programming-trailblazer-dies-at-70.html
Our society places a much higher value on being successful in business and on the things that keep us entertained than they do in science and technology, but I wouldn't call being remembered in premium media outlets like the NY Times and others "no one" noticing.
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poetkiosk Title: Snail Hunter
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Registered: 2002-3-17 04:37:03
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
Never heard of him and those here that have I would be are in the IT industry.
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SirGarth Title: Moderator
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poetkiosk Title: Snail Hunter
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I read the NYtimes every day. Granted not word for word and some days skip around. I never read LA times or Washington Post.
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
I find this thread ironical
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Jorrdan Posts: 293
Registered: 2001-10-19 07:31:24
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
Taliesihne posted:
It probably wasn't a good idea to post this on a board where so many people work in Technology.
It was noticed.
And Jorrdan, there is beauty in code.
What I think is funny is that it took you ~6 months to post this Tenkly. Those of us that understood his impact were discussing this quite some time ago.
The only people that find code beautiful are nerds.
i.e., the only people that find ugly people beautiful are their family.
Those people already know about their death.
p.s. My undergrad is in Computer Science.  I just decided I liked technical writing better. Though...both careers are  so I am doomed.
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Koneg  Title: Evil Genius
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Dennis Richie is(was) 10x more important than steve jobs, yet no one even noticed when he died |
SirGarth posted:
Ritchie's contribution was no doubt crucial
Well let's see here - Mac's and iPhones etc et al run a modified version of BSD which is just a modified version of... UNIX.
Most of the Apple code base is written in Objective C, which is derived from... C.
So yea, I think it's safe to say Ritchie's contributions were no doubt crucial, as virtually the entire Apple product line, or anyone else's for that matter, would not exist in their current forms without them. 
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