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? Dennis Ritchie dearthderivativeidea Change image and share on social
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. Dennis Ritchie betfastgrow Change image and share on social
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Dennis Ritchie careerinfluenceken Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie advicecompilerdesign Change image and share on social
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. Dennis Ritchie basicallygeniusoperate Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie completelyconsequentcontrol share on social
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. Dennis Ritchie commercialengineermultics Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie colleaguegrouphasten Change image and share on social
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. Dennis Ritchie editexportmail Change image and share on social
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. Dennis Ritchie amountenjoyhave Change image and share on social
