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Thompson, Ritchie, and Kernighan form an impressive trinity, but I doubt they actually affected Jobs or Gates much.
Oh, and I don't think they should have HP-UX going so far back -- as far as I recall that's just HP's rebranding of DEC's TRU64 UNIX.
modified 9-Oct-15 17:58pm.
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"but I doubt they actually affected Jobs or Gates much"
As the NeXT and OS/X are both UNIX platforms, as is iOS, I'd say that their influence was strong on Jobs at least. Not as strong as the Xerox Pal Alto Research Center, which both Jobs and Gates visited and inspired the modern UI, but nonetheless, their work enabled both Microsoft and Apple to build the platforms we love and hate today.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: As the NeXT and OS/X are both UNIX platforms, as is iOS
Jobs was already a success by then.
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That doesn't mean he stopped being influenced by anything.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Australia's highest court has ruled unanimously that a version of a gene that is linked to an increased risk for breast cancer cannot be patented. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lives > Money? Easy, Australia. Let's think this through.
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I wonder what would have been in the USA 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Don't worry, the new trade pacts the US is trying to make in the pacific and EU will make sure balance is restored. Money will rule supreme.
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Would they start suing us for breach of copyright it we had a 'patented' gene in our genome?
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No, you simply have to pay them royalty for as long as the gene is within your system. Simple as that!
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Mozilla has set out what it believes are some reasonable principles for content blocking that will benefit everyone involved. A browser may not injure a user or, through inaction, allow a user to come to harm
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday called on the federal government to make computer coding classes a requirement of high-school graduation. Not sure if this will make code reviews in 20 years exciting or ... terrifying.
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Idiot. Why not cooking and sewing? Those are skills that are much more widely required. 
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Why not personal finance?
Oh wait...
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We used to have "home economics" classes back in the day, which were required. They did teach cooking and other stuff.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Yep, was required in my junior high school back in the 70s.
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My middle school required that in 2005. AFAIK, they still require it. Those are not bad skills to have.
It was split into different classes, I remember the cooking class quite well. I turned out to be one of the best cooks there. We made all sorts of things, from cakes to steaks to BACON to pretty much anything else edible. That was a fun class.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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quoted quote: called on the federal government to make computer coding classes a requirement of high-school graduation.
Perfect way to kill all interest in coding.
Why not make oil painting or writing poems a requirement for graduation?
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20 years? Any normal 18 year old already knowseverything there is to know.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yeah... the federal government dictating a requirement on something that is supposed to be controlled at the state level.
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Most developers these days have heard of machine learning, but when trying to find an 'easy' way into this technique, most people find themselves getting scared off by the abstractness of the concept of Machine Learning and terms as regression, unsupervised learning, Probability Density Function and many other definitions. Is anyone else worried about developers running around doing "machine learning" without much understanding of mathematics and probability?
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For those who aren't scared off by the mathematics and probability:
If you really want to learn about Machine Learning and Classification systems, check out the Free, introductory Machine Learning online course from Caltech![^]
It won't give you the code, but you'll learn lots about how to do it yourself!
If you try taking the course, I suggest using Octave (a free Matlab-compatible system)[^] for practicing and homework.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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No, we already run around doing lots of stuff withoput understanding the math and probability behind it.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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