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. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
I’m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
