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Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away
WankerWeasel writes "The sad news of the death of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS, we have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too, as many of the applications you're using were written in C."
I've been reading Slashdot long enough that I know to expect it, but still I'm saddened by the number of people using the occasion of Richie's death to take another gratuitous slam at Steve Jobs.
Honoring the dead is not a zero-sum game. We can pay tribute to the accomplishments of both Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie without subtracting from our respect for either man.
And if you don't like Steve Jobs, okay, but I think you show more respect for Ritchie by keeping your opinion of Jobs out of this particular discussion. This being Slashdot, there'll be plenty of opportunities for you to do that in the future.
Really, the original poster didnt say "Without C, we wouldn't have Unix (which he also co-developed), Windows, OS X (and thus the i-devices) or most of the other modern operating systems. His contributions will live on."?
What part of that did I misinterpret? Because even rereading it now I don't see a misinterpretation, or even pedanticism on my part - I don't see Ritchie as a god like figure, without whom we wouldn't have had "most of the other modern operating systems". If he didn't do it, someone else would have. Praise him for what he did do, not for the fantastical events you ascribe to him like a messiah.
Go fuck yourself, you shitty little person.