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10-14-2011, 12:14 AM | #1 |
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co-creator of C programming language and unix died last saturday
while everyone cries about steve jobs, one of the few people that essentially enabled people like steve jobs and bill gates to make billions of dollars was a man named dennis ritchie. dennis co-created a programming language called 'C' and also co-wrote a operating system called unix. for those of you that aren't familiar with either, the computer you're typing on today, and many of your smartphones, pretty much emanated from those two things. those macs and iphones you use all run a unix-based kernel. hell, terminal on a macos computer is straight unix shell. oh and that windows OS, completely compiled from C code. dennis ritchie was the half-father of virtually all software.
so i guess what i'm getting at is that there was a man behind steve jobs and bill gates that made their profiteering possible, but gets none of the credit. i'm giving that credit here. while right now we focus on steve jobs' accomplishments, he was also a really crafty businessman that made billions through great ideas and a really good legal team. he did change a lot about how people view computers and computing, but he didn't invent it. the guy that pretty much did invent modern computing has died, and it wasn't steve. so RIP dennis ritchie. thanks for making this all possible. and, no, i ain't mad, some of you just fools. |
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Holy crap!! I knew who he was as one of my professors briefly covered him and his accomplishments but I had no idea he had passed. Thanks for sharing I guess
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man, didnt know he passed. Thanks to him, I have a job, although programming in C++ and C#
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Without Dennis, there WOULD BE NO Apple. Apple OS is itself, single user UNIX. Dennis didn't even make the f***ing headlines. Talk about fairness? WTF has this world come to?
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Some caveman invented the wheel, but Goodyear still rolls around like it's so boss. What's your point? RIP to the guy, but all he had was an idea. You have to realize although he co-invented C and Unix, they would've existed anyway in another form. It's only a matter of time.
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Ritchie's influence is really felt more broadly that Jobs', but Jobs' made it realized/tangible for the average person. C/Unix are the building blocks of what Jobs' popularized.
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What Ritchie did was crucial to the progress of the technology itself, not just the packaging of the tech. Not only that, but not enough people really know about Bell Labs and exactly how much they shaped the world we're in today. That place was like an assembly line of the building blocks of technology today. So many brilliant guys there.... |
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So true. It's amazing when you hear about many of the tech start ups of the past 15-20 years how many had some direct impact from Bell Labs.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/i...bit-bell-labs/
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This man >>>> Jobs.
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os x is not "single user unix", it's just unix. android, iphone os, both trace their lineage to dmr's work. that's just on the unix side, when you throw C into the equation , you can include pretty much everything.
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