Now Dennis Ritchie has died. :-(
http://arstechnica.com/business/news...e-stand-on.ars
What a terrible month. One of the men who laid the foundations of modern computing.
(To bring this back to the Jobs thread, it is like comparing Isaac Newton and JFK - one made things possible, the other made them happen. In the end, man walked on the moon. They did fundamentally different things, and are remembered in different ways.)