"C was already implemented on several quite different……" — Dennis Ritchie
"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"
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33 Quotes by Dennis Ritchie
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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…
- At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is:…
- I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended…
- C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of…
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