A lot of tragedies happen in the world, but you're not going to see a black bar ...

fasterik 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Niklaus Wirth has died

A lot of tragedies happen in the world, but you're not going to see a black bar on HN for every one of them. It's not so much about the magnitude of the loss, but the contribution that person made to the history of computing.