UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
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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.
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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.
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I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
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C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
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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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