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Not trying to sound mean or anything but, there is a thread about that already... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=78974
EDIT: Maybe the moderators should then merge the other thread with this? If it really should be "On-Topic"
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I just saw it on that rolling banner at the bottom of the news channel that Dennis Richie had died - a real OMGG moment - now I see from Wikipedia, it was on 8th. Articles are already comparing him and the publicuty (or absence thereof) to that of the former Apple-man Steve Jobs. The nature of their achievments was very different, so in a way, it doesn't matter if he doesn't get the hype of Jobs but respect is definitely due from a tech community like this: Salute!
For those who don't know who he is or what he did, this is quite a good article or just do a web search for him.
For the lazy: he was a lead in the team, at Bell Labs, that invented the C programming languange and susquently created/in order to create Unix, from which stems both iOS and Linux, amongst others.
Now, I'm a rubbish programmer but the importance of being able to write software in a normal-ish language and model "real objects" in code that also runs so close to the harware can hardly be missed by anyone who tries.
Big Karma!
*even if C did mimic other languanges of the era, it was new as an entity.