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
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. Dennis Ritchie editexportmail Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie announcebeginhappen 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
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. Dennis Ritchie earlyjavamicrosoft 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
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. Dennis Ritchie complexitycomputationalcomputer 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
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
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. Dennis Ritchie advicebackcommentary Change image and share on social