Indeed. But where would iPhones be if it were not for the fundamental building blocks of:<p>* File-based Operating Systems
* The C Programming language (which Objective C is built on top of)
* Unix (of which Mac OSX is built on top of)
* Darwin (of which both Mac OSX and iOS are built on top of)<p>Even if the masses don&#x27;t understand the technical achievement, I would hope that a website named &quot;Hacker News&quot; would understand the scope of Dennis Ritchie&#x27;s contribution to our field.