Dennis Ritchie

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. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#html #i #make #more #now

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#growing up #had #heros #i #particularly

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#done #enjoyed #i #long #reasonable

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#had #influence #ken #most #obviously

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#i #managerial #more #over #past

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#become #central #continue #decline #kind

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#colleagues #come #group #hasten #i