For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. Dennis Ritchie displacehardinfrastructure 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
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
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. Dennis Ritchie editexportmail 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
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
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
