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" C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. "
Dennis Ritchie
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" For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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