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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. - Dennis Ritchie
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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. - Dennis Ritchie
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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. - Dennis Ritchie
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The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and that tables, it really was fairly painful. - Dennis Ritchie
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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. - 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
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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. - Dennis Ritchie
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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
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The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed. - Dennis Ritchie
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I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. - Dennis Ritchie
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I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. - 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
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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. - Dennis Ritchie
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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. - 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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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. - Dennis Ritchie
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