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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"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."
"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."
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
"At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler."
"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."
"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 fate."
"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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