Computers Quote by Dennis Ritchie

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages…

— Eric S. Raymond

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a…

— Dave Cutler

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment…

— Eric S. Raymond

The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and…

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

— Dave Cutler

“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a…

— Peter Seibel