On Oct 17, 12:23*pm, Larry Blanchard wrote:
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.

Google Richie - maybe that'll help. ~

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

I wonder if it could be any other way. It's a rare person that
combines creativity, financial skills and technical and marketing know-
how. Artists are an example. Most of them hate the marketing end of
things and many serious artists are willing to give up their monopoly
on their own artwork to become minority partners with a dealer.

R