Some Consider Unix To Be The Second

Some Consider Unix To Be The Second Most Important Invention To Come Out Of At&t Bell Labs After The Transistor.

The Kind Of Programming That C Provides Will Probably Remain Similar Absolutely Or Slowly Decline In Usage, But Relatively, Javascript Or Its Variants, Or Xml, Will Continue To Become More Central.

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 Basis Of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike Was The Real Force In Getting It Together). And In The Meantime Ken Created The First Computer Chess Master And Pretty Much Rewrote The Book On Chess Endgames. He Is Quite A Phenomenon.

C++ And Java, Say, Are Presumably Growing Faster Than Plain C, But I Bet C Will Still Be Around.

A Program Designed For Inputs From People Is Usually Stressed Beyond Breaking Point By Computer-generated Inputs.