"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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Programming

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

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Time

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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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