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. Dennis Ritchie completelyconsequentcontrol share on social
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 absolutelycentralcontinue Change image and share on social
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 distributeimplementmachine Change image and share on social
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. Dennis Ritchie growheroperson Change image and share on social
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 dearthderivativeidea Change image and share on social
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. Dennis Ritchie displacehardinfrastructure Change image and share on social
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. Dennis Ritchie fixhtmlmake Change image and share on social
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. Dennis Ritchie colleaguegrouphasten Change image and share on social
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. Dennis Ritchie amountenjoyhave Change image and share on social
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. Dennis Ritchie havemanagerialpast Change image and share on social
