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I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

~Dennis Ritchie

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

~Dennis Ritchie

Topics: Around Bet Faster Growing Java Plain Presumably Say Still Than Will

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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

~Dennis Ritchie

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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

~Dennis Ritchie

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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?

~Dennis Ritchie

Topics: Derivative Done Had Ideas Intellectually Much New New Ideas Others Rather Really Same Same Time Seems Things Time

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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 in a small group.

~Dennis Ritchie

Topics: Approach Certain Development Group Like Lot Many Other Peculiar Small Small Group Stems Successful Things Unity Ways

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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, will continue to become more central.

~Dennis Ritchie

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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 system was new.

~Dennis Ritchie

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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

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Topics: Been More Over Past Role Several Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 9th, 1941

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