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Early Apple computers used BASIC and assembly, Apple Lisa and early Apple Macintosh were Pascal oriented... Steve Jobs did just fine without C and Unix. It's true that there's Unix in OS X and iOS, but there there's Linux which powers Google and most of the datacenters today, it's in Android and almost any gadget you look at... and the article authors don't mention it because then it wouldn't be in any way anything specific to Steve Jobs...


Comments like this one show that Apple fanboyism knows no bounds.

One of the biggest contributers to the foundation of computer science and the software industry (with respect to both concepts and implementation) has died and we're talking about Steve Jobs again.


Steve Jobs is in the headline, so hardly off-topic. Perhaps anti-apple-fanboyism knows no bounds.


Just as I've already said (do read!) the original article makes the connection between Jobs and dmr much bigger than it should be and ignores a lot of technology which also uses dmr work. Why is fanboyism claiming 1) Jobs first big influences on technology were dmr free (Pascal in Lisa and Macintosh) and 2) authors didn't mention a lot of technology that directly uses things like C and Unix that dmr coauthored.


You are forgetting NeXT and ObjectiveC.




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