Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.More Dennis Ritchie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Dennis Ritchie quotes [10/13/2011 06:10:13]

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.More Dennis Ritchie quotes [10/13/2011 06:10:28]

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fateMore Dennis Ritchie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.More Dennis Ritchie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]