Both of these men died in the same month of the same year – one you know and one you probably won’t have heard of.
I like most of you consider Steve Jobs an innovative legend with more vision than the Hubble Telescope, whereas I wasn’t aware of Dennis Richie until Troy our Customer Support guru and super Geek enlightened me. Apparently only a handful of the thousands if not millions of programmers who use the fuit of Denis’s labours even know they are let alone his name or the fact that he has left us.
It is true that without Steve Jobs there is no iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macintosh or iTunes.
Without Dennis there is no C. Without C, there is no Unix, Windows, or Linux. Without C there is no C++ nor Objective C. There is no MacOS X, no iOS, no Photoshop, no FLStudio, no Firefox, no Safari, no Google Chrome, no Playstation, no XBox. In fact, 90% of the applications in the world are written in C or C++ or Objective C.
Thanks to scodal and Troy for letting me know!
