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 Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
