Dennis Ritchie Quotes
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A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,
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Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
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A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.
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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
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Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
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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,…
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I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
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It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
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