DMR created. SJ inspired.
let's not compare both.
let's not compare both.
Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with their belief that SJ was god.
Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.
Speak for yourself. Steve Jobs was not my hero. I respected him but did not like him one bit.
> C is far more important than anything SJ ever did
And yes, ge gots to be far more important because he's first in the food chain. He invented the paintbrush and went on inventing the art itself.
On top of that, there are thousands of programming language today, many relying deeply on concepts and paradigms that are much younger than C itself, but C remains one of the most used languages. Not only C is very much used, it's still the only option in many cases and it is by far, the language that is most used to implement other languages, or at least to bootstrap them.
Considering the age of the paintbrush comparing to, say, spray ink, your analogy is in fact, not only valid, but a very good one.
It's more like saying the paintbrush is more important than anything some really successful art dealer ever did.
http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/steve-jobs-never-had-... (the book mentioned in the blog post, not the post itself)
Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.
dmr and ken are definitely the pioneers, they're like elvis and jerry lee lewis.
sj is bob dylan (inspirational)
larry page and sergey brin are milli vannili (one hit wonder copy cats)
and bill g is linkin park (he just plain sucks)