This is a much geekier remembrance than for Steve Jobs, but I might argue just as important in the tech world. I started my tech existence reading Dennis Ritchie, as did anyone who learned C.
If you are programming for the iPhone, you are probably using Objective-C which is an extension of original C. Frankly most programming these days owes something to the original C language (Origami is primarily C#, another extension of C).
So a farewell to someone that no one outside of tech has even heard of. But should have…
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