Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 Oct 2011 18:43:06 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Jonas de Buhr [11-10-15 19:16]: > > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 > > > > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : > > > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > > > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: > > > > > > > > I have spent t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
> i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows > who steve jobs is, thats why his death makes front page. > average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C. Back at my University only very small number of people knows, who's Richie (although GNU/Linux systems are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jonas de Buhr [11-10-15 19:16]: > Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 > schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : > > > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: > > > > > > I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the > > > folks here who were

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: > > > > I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the > > folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is >

[gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented on t