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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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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
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"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."
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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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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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"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."
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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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"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
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"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."
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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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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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"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time."
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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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"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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