Sometimes When You Fill A Vacuum, It

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.

For Books, I Don't Read Much Fiction, But Like Travel Essays And Good Pop-science.

Unix Is Basically A Simple Operating System, But You Have To Be A Genius To Understand The Simplicity.

I'm Not A Person Who Particularly Had Heros When Growing Up.

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.