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Unix Is Simple And Coherent, But It Takes A Genius (or At Any Rate, A Programmer) To Understand And Appreciate Its Simplicity.

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

C++ And Java, Say, Are Presumably Growing Faster Than Plain C, But I Bet C Will Still Be Around.

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 Infrastructure Technology, C Will Be Hard To Displace.