This is why when Steve Jobs died in 2011 another far more important figure died... Dennis Ritchie. The man who made the C programming language and Unix, without which nothing Apple produced would be possible.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 37 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Not to downplay dmr's importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we'd just have something else and perhaps it would've been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren't a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that's the whole importance of C, isn't it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.

I'm not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, Apple would just steal literally every single idea and piece of software from someone else

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