Steve Jobs - good bye. So what if the Lisa, NeXT, and other things failed? The modern successes way, way, WAY out weigh the failures. Apple designs are about being minimalists. Almost everyone else is clutter and buttons.
I am one of the few who used a NeXT computer in my school's math lab. I programmed the Motorola 68000 assembly language in the old Macintosh's. I love my mac book and ipod. I love almost all Pixar movies. (I still hate Monsters, Inc and Cars) I wrote BASIC in the Apple IIe. I used the Quadra! I loved System 7. I loved Apples before they were cool and popular. Thanks and good bye, Mr. Jobs.
This is a reminder a billionaire can't buy one more minute in life. When it's time, it's time.
Dennis Ritchie - the father of Unix and C died this week. Thank you for giving the world C. Assembly languages really suck. C was a huge improvement. Very few people nowadays really "get" the spirit of C and why it can't return a string. I do!
Without C and Unix, there will be no modern computing. No iphone, no Android.
I have the first edition of the K+R C book! (before ANSI C). It may be worth something 100 years from now.
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