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California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day"

Posted by samzenpus on from the final-goodbye dept.

First time accepted submitter onezeta writes "California Gov. Jerry Brown, in an announcement via a Twitter post, has declared it 'Steve Jobs Day.' The Apple co-founder's life as a technology trailblazer will be marked Sunday by his company's home state at a private memorial service and in a television documentary airing tonight at 8 pm EST on Discovery."

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  1. Another holiday: by Hartree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want a Dennis Ritchie day!

  2. Written in C by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.

    It's not just that C is the second most common programming language: Most of the other languages are actually written in C. That includes Perl, Python, and PHP.

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  3. Re:Shut the fuck uphttp://apple.slashdot.org/comme by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tell that to the millions of people who fucking cried when a ruthless capitalist that they didn't even know died. That's far far more pathetic.

  4. How about a real visionary and genius? by mr_mischief · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Steve Jobs helped make Objective C, an offshoot of C, popular.
    Dennis Ritchie made C.

    Steve Jobs convinced his company to port an OS.
    Dennis Ritchie helped create the very idea of a portable OS.

    Steve Jobs eventually decided Unix would make a good basis for the OS on his hardware.
    Dennis Ritchie helped Ken Thompson create Unix.

    Steve Jobs and his company eventually decided that a similar OS and development stack across all the company's devices would be a useful idea.
    Dennis Ritchie helped create an OS and development stack used on everything from phones to supercomputers.