Subject: Engineers frustrated by Ritchie vs. Jobs recognition and coverage

>  I am at a semiconductor conference here in Spain and we spent spent
>  this morning reflecting on the impact Steve Jobs had on our industry...
>
>  A great loss...
>
>      - from http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/111005.html

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Hey, John,

Dennis Ritchie passed this weekend.  He may be as important to your readers
as Jobs was.  No only was he one of the two principal inventors of Unix, but
more importantly, the inventor of C.  C is the root of most of the currently
used programming languages.

If you ever asked Ritchie a question, he was always very helpful.

NPR has a video.

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Hi, John,

We just lost the other side of the house.  Dennis Ritchie changed our
world with Unix and C -- two of the pillars that hold up much of the EDA
house we live and work in.  I will miss him.

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RIP dmr

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Hey, John,

Dennis Ritchie, the father of C and Unix died, too.  Unix is the quiet
operating system underpinning all of Apple's Mac's, iPhones, etc.
Steve Jobs would have been lost without Ritchie's work.

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Hi, John,

Jobs was a marketing huckster.  We lost the real innovator who enabled
the web, the Internet, smart phones, workstations, and our entire
online world when Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C and Unix passed.

In true engineering fashion, Ritchie didn't get 1/10,000th the recognition,
nor 1/1,000,000th money, that attention whore Steve Jobs got; even though
Ritchie and Woz did all the technical heavy lifting.

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Hi, John,

Dennis Ritchie died.  I still have my first edition Kernighan and Ritchie
that I first learned C from.  Today is a sad day.

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Hi, John,

Dennis Ritchie, the shoulders that Steve Jobs stood on, has died.

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Sadly, if there's one lesson to take away from Ritchie's death is that
undeserving men like Steve Jobs often get far more public recognition
than those engineers like Dennis Ritchie who truly deserved it.

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Ritchie has died, too.  He should be remembered, too.