Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. Dennis Ritchie More Quotes by Dennis Ritchie More Quotes From Dennis Ritchie The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software. Dennis Ritchie care real philosophy 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 Dennis Ritchie unix machines different At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics. Dennis Ritchie system some things programming 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. Dennis Ritchie group colleagues work ideas Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. Dennis Ritchie over more past years My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony. Dennis Ritchie bell about place father At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? Dennis Ritchie new done time ideas The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed. Dennis Ritchie short place language change The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and that tables, it really was fairly painful. Dennis Ritchie version make painful process
