I'm Still Uncertain About The Language Declaration

Steve Jobs Has Said That Xwindows Is Brain-damamged And Will Disappear In Two Years. He Got It Half-right.

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

Pretty Much Everything On The Web Uses Those Two Things: C And Unix.

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

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.