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, or at least to propagate.
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. - Dennis Ritchie
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
- Dennis Ritchie
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. - Dennis Ritchie
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. - Dennis Ritchie
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. - Dennis Ritchie
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do - Dennis Ritchie
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. - Dennis Ritchie
I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. - Dennis Ritchie
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie
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. - Dennis Ritchie
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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