> But I think that when the deaths of people like Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy in the same month as Steve are ignored Steve Jobs was a media figure who was

> But I think that when the deaths of people like Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy in the same month as Steve are ignored Steve Jobs was a media figure who was present up to the end of his life, whereas Dennie Ritchie has invented something extremely important decades ago and then kept a low profile. The respective amount of media coverage has nothing to do with who was objectively the more important human, only postings like yours claim to know the answer to this, and I think it's rather tasteless.