I read PCWorld Vietnam this morning, one of a few IT - magazines in this country that seems somewhat serious about its content and don't rush for the script kiddie stuff. This month's issue features two article about three tragedy losses of the IT world this year. Steve Jobs' works were highlighted in an 8 pages long article with lots of pictures while John McCarthy and Dennis Ritchie was put together in an 2 pages only article with two faces (of them) in it, We must admit that two pages was much nicer than what other magazines would give them but that was it, only two pages.
I put an status on facebook and an - so called - iFan said that I would not understand because I haven't used iProduct. Then it stroke me, what we, future engineers and scientists of this country, were destined to? A little time for side note: If you come to this university and dream of neither engineering nor science, if you just want to become another Bill Gate or Steve then you can stop reading and piss off, those guys didn't need techy stuffs to be successful, just piss off and start you BUSINESS, you future businessman
We who committed to this techy path is following the footstep of McCarthy and Ritchie, let's be known that perhaps not even a single one of us will ever be able to accomplish as great a job as what they did. But even if we will, we was still destined to be poorer than Bill and Steve, to be inferior as a public figures, to be less missed when we pass away. Be sad as much as you want, but that was what destiny await us and we can't change that. For Steve to be able to bring iPhone to the world, many engineers spent many sleepless nights working hard. I doubt any iFan could remember the name of any of those engineers.
The destiny is settled, but what we can change is our attitude. Let us all aware that we are the one who made the whole things possible. Unix set the standard for modern operating system and almost every operating system was written in C or its variants. Without McCarthy and Ritchie there will be no Windows, no MacOS, no iOS, no linux, no android, no anything. They are great man and they will be missed, at least among the rank of engineer and scientist they will be missed.
There are great heroes, but the greatest hero is the one who doesn't have our recognition.
PS: This post was English, as allowed by the rule. The content was spell checked but your are welcome to find any error and obscure statements, I will try to correct them as much as I could. The reason this post was in English is for trolling prevention, if you don't understand it then keep out! I'm in an emotional state and trolling comment will meet severe consequences.
I put an status on facebook and an - so called - iFan said that I would not understand because I haven't used iProduct. Then it stroke me, what we, future engineers and scientists of this country, were destined to? A little time for side note: If you come to this university and dream of neither engineering nor science, if you just want to become another Bill Gate or Steve then you can stop reading and piss off, those guys didn't need techy stuffs to be successful, just piss off and start you BUSINESS, you future businessman
We who committed to this techy path is following the footstep of McCarthy and Ritchie, let's be known that perhaps not even a single one of us will ever be able to accomplish as great a job as what they did. But even if we will, we was still destined to be poorer than Bill and Steve, to be inferior as a public figures, to be less missed when we pass away. Be sad as much as you want, but that was what destiny await us and we can't change that. For Steve to be able to bring iPhone to the world, many engineers spent many sleepless nights working hard. I doubt any iFan could remember the name of any of those engineers.
The destiny is settled, but what we can change is our attitude. Let us all aware that we are the one who made the whole things possible. Unix set the standard for modern operating system and almost every operating system was written in C or its variants. Without McCarthy and Ritchie there will be no Windows, no MacOS, no iOS, no linux, no android, no anything. They are great man and they will be missed, at least among the rank of engineer and scientist they will be missed.
There are great heroes, but the greatest hero is the one who doesn't have our recognition.
PS: This post was English, as allowed by the rule. The content was spell checked but your are welcome to find any error and obscure statements, I will try to correct them as much as I could. The reason this post was in English is for trolling prevention, if you don't understand it then keep out! I'm in an emotional state and trolling comment will meet severe consequences.
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