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The news is full of the same thing; we lost Steve Jobs, ex-head of Apple, and quite a guy. Now yes, it is a shame when anyone dies of cancer, and yes, Steve jobs has done a lot, I am not saying the opposite. However, as far as I am concerned, Apple was and always will be Steve Wozniak. Posts have been made on Google+ and Facebook, and one of the polls was "How has Steve Jobs changed your life?". Well, to be perectly honest, he hasn't really. He has a bit, of course, but indirectly.

However, something that went passed completely unnoticed, and I only found out about it from a post on Google+, two days later, was the death of Dennis MacAllister Ritchie, the inventor of C, and co-author of the best C programming book I have ever read. There is little to say of the man; he was a genius, and was extremely humble. He revolutioned the computer industry with a "simple" idea, and nwas never one to boast about what he had accomplished.

This is someone who really has changed the way I work every day; mainly because my work evolves so much around Unix and C.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie