Dennis Ritchie Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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?”

“Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.”

“I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.”

“For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.”

“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.”

“I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”