Dennis Ritchie Quotes

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

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