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TopicI really hate humanity sometimes.
CalvinbalI
01/28/12 1:40:00 AM
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From: Phase | #038
CalvinbalI posted...
Someone more important to the advent of personal computing (and computing in general) died within the same month of Jobs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie


Uh... the C/Unix duo were pretty much completely non-important to personal computing. I mean, Unix as an OS saw basically zero use on non-programmer/academic work terminals until.... ever, because the most successful personal Unix product is... OS X (lol).


This is absolutely, crazy bat-s*** absurd. How can you say that C and Unix were unimportant to personal computing when quite literally everything about Apple is founded on C and Unix? When the entire Android platform is founded on Unix? When more programs that your average person with a PC uses are programmed in a C-based language or a Unix-based OS than any other language or OS out there, combined?

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