- Nov 07, 2020
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- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, was announced by Vita Nuova.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, will continue to become more central.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 in a small group.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020