On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:41:16 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

Wait a minute--I didn't see the original post. Dennis Ritchie died?
Steve Jobs is all over the news, but there doesn't seem to be a peep
about Ritchie, without whom Apple would still be in the OS dark ages and
as dead as Imsai.

The public sees the mass marketers - they don't see the guys in the back
room who generated the product being marketed.

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw