When we mourn a genius called Steve Jobs, don't forget to have a Dennislich

On October 20 in 2011, it was two weeks after the death of Steve Jobs. Apple also held a memorial service for jobs, and some of the Apple stores decided to temporarily shut it down to mark the occasion, while more than 1 million of netizens sent emails to express their remembrance of the technology saga. But, in the memory of this wizard who has changed our lives, I want to express my grief for another genius--Dennislich.

Dennislich, the father of C and Unix, won the Turing Prize (the computer industry's most prestigious and noblest award in 1983) with Ken Thompson, who died on the October 12, 2011 of local time (Beijing time is October 9, 2011). Dennislich aged 70.

I think there may be a lot of people do not know him, even I also because I have just translated a news about his death, only to recall in my memory to find his name. Unlike Steve Jobs, he is often in Media and the world before exposure. He is very low-key, but he invented the C programming language and UNIX system, but in the field of computer no one knows no one. And we also unconsciously enjoy the changes and conveniences he brings to our lives.

Since the advent of C language, the C-language as the base of C + +, Java and C # and other object-oriented languages have been born, and in their respective areas of great success. At the same time, UNIX also affects Mac OS X and BSD, as well as UNIX-like systems such as Minix and very popular Linux operating systems.

Or you can not understand his influence, for example to illustrate it. Without jobs, perhaps the computer field is not good enough, but it will continue to develop; without Dennislich, we cannot imagine what the computer field is like at present. At least, with jobs, we don't see Apple and iphone, because Mac OS X and iOS are all built on UNIX systems, and you don't see Linux based Android, because Linux is built on Unix as well.

Dennislich is a well-deserved uncrowned, he used his invention silently change our life and the world. So when we mourn jobs, don't forget to Dennislich the great scientist.

Thank him for all he has done for the world, let him go all the way!

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