Steve Jobs dies, the (media) world goes nuts. Dennis Ritchie dies, hardly anyone (apart from geeks) notices. Nice way of putting it: http://blogs.computerworld.com/19097/dennis_ritchie_and_steve_jobs_quite_the... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Thanks. I quite enjoyed the article, and the comments. :) Noel On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Steve Jobs dies, the (media) world goes nuts. Dennis Ritchie dies, hardly anyone (apart from geeks) notices.
Nice way of putting it: http://blogs.computerworld.com/19097/dennis_ritchie_and_steve_jobs_quite_the...
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Its pretty sad, but one guy was a charsmatic CEO of a major company, the other (seems to me anyway) happier working away at a problem, of course one is going to be more noted in mainstream. Intersting comparing the two with Tesla and Eddison thou, some almost polar opposites as well.
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