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
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. Dennis Ritchie havemanagerialpast 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
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. Dennis Ritchie distributeimplementmachine Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie absolutelycentralcontinue Change image and share on social
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. Dennis Ritchie fixhtmlmake 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
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. Dennis Ritchie growheroperson Change image and share on social
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. Dennis Ritchie displacehardinfrastructure Change image and share on social
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. Dennis Ritchie approachdevelopmentgroup Change image and share on social
