This little tidbit has gone viral the last three days but in case some of you haven't seen it I thought I would share...
Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. Both of these men died in the same month of the same year. Steve was largely considered as a hero whereas Dennis was widely ignored. Only a handful of programmers who know the real value of his work would actually know about Ritchie's death.
Without Steve, there is no Apple, iPod, iPad and Macintosh.
But without Ritchie, there is no C. And without C, there is no Unix, Windows or Linux. Without C, there is no C++ and no Objective C. Which means there is no MacOS X, no iOS, no Photoshop, no FLstudio, no Firefox, no Safari, no Google Chrome, no Playstation, no XBox. As a matter of fact, almost 90% if ALL APPLICATIONS IN THE WORLD are written in C, C++ or Objective C.
It's already too late we all know it. Yet, if you think Dennis deserves appreciation for his enormous contribution to the world of technology that we live in, do share this. Do spread this. Seriously.
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