"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."

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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."

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

Will,

"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."

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"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."

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"Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9."

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"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?"

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

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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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"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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"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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