"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."

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"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."

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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."

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"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."

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

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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."

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"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."

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"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."

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"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."

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