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Dennis Ritchie Quotes

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science Picture Quote #1

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it’s clear that people should be looking beyond it Picture Quote #1

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I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I’m not an audiophile Picture Quote #1

I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate Picture Quote #1

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Over the past several years, I’ve been more in a managerial role Picture Quote #1

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data Picture Quote #1

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it Picture Quote #1

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed Picture Quote #1

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success Picture Quote #1

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks Picture Quote #1

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I’m not a person who particularly had heros when growing up Picture Quote #1

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty Picture Quote #1

A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler Picture Quote #1

I’ve done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time Picture Quote #1

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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 Quotes) For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 Quotes) From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it’s clear that people should be looking beyond it. (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I’m not an audiophile (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 Quotes) I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) Over the past several years, I’ve been more in a managerial role (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) I’m not a person who particularly had heros when growing up (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 Quotes) That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) 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 Quotes) At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler (Dennis Ritchie Quotes) I’ve done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time (Dennis Ritchie Quotes)