C Is Quirky, Flawed, And An Enormous

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.

C Is Declining Somewhat In Usage Compared To C++, And Maybe Java, But Perhaps Even More Compared To Higher-level Scripting Languages. It's Still Fairly Strong For The Basic System-type Things.

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

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

The True-gnu Philosophy Is More Extreme Than I Care For, But It Certainly Laid A Foundation For The Current Scene, As Well As Providing Real Software.