Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. Dennis Ritchie More Quotes by Dennis Ritchie More Quotes From Dennis Ritchie I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. Dennis Ritchie classical-music radio 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. Dennis Ritchie javascript aggravation kind Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Dennis Ritchie influence careers persons Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. Dennis Ritchie jobs two years Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. Dennis Ritchie labs bells important When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd. Dennis Ritchie advice giving thinking I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. Dennis Ritchie done journey long One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. Dennis Ritchie obvious-things obvious too-much I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place. Dennis Ritchie home long thinking For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. Dennis Ritchie pops book fiction Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 Dennis Ritchie mail done editing I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. Dennis Ritchie html scripts now-and-then The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. Dennis Ritchie records humorous cards Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Dennis Ritchie linux labs rooms Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data. Dennis Ritchie filled-out data people My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. Dennis Ritchie hierarchy real school 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. Dennis Ritchie inferno release june It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. Dennis Ritchie unix software certain It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate. Dennis Ritchie niche today ideas C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things. Dennis Ritchie java levels strong
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