A Program Designed For Inputs From People

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

Twenty Percent Of All Input Forms Filled Out By People Contain Bad Data.

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

When I Read Commentary About Suggestions For Where C Should Go, I Often Think Back And Give Thanks That It Wasn't Developed Under The Advice Of A Worldwide Crowd.

The Notion Of A Record Is An Obsolete Remnant Of The Days Of The 80-column Card.