C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fair….

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax..

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks..

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

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed..

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX..

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20..

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success..

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things..

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose in….

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 gro….

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it..

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, ….

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software..

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the ba….

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..

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

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace..

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right..