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.

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• Dennis Ritchie:

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

• Dennis Ritchie:

  For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

• Dennis Ritchie:

  The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline i

• Dennis Ritchie:

  At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general a

• Dennis Ritchie:

  I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion

• Dennis Ritchie:

  I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

• Dennis Ritchie:

  When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks

• Dennis Ritchie:

  C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of a

• Dennis Ritchie:

  My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies

• Dennis Ritchie:

  One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was