I Listen To Mostly-classical Music, But Mostly

C Is Quirky, Flawed, And An Enormous Success.

It's True That Compared With The Scene When Unix Started, Today The Ecological Niches Are Fairly Full, And Fresh New Os Ideas Are Harder To Come By, Or At Least To Propagate.

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.

Sometimes When You Fill A Vacuum, It Still Sucks.

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