Pretty Much Everything On The Web Uses

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

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

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.

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

I'm Just An Observer Of Java, And Where Microsoft Wants To Go With C# Is Too Early To Tell.