American - Scientist | September 9, 1941 -
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
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The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
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C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.
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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
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A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
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I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
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