The Number Of Unix Installations Has Grown

From An Operating System Research Point Of View, Unix Is If Not Dead Certainly Old Stuff, And It's Clear That People Should Be Looking Beyond It.

Pretty Much Everything On The Web Uses Those Two Things: C And Unix.

Sometimes When You Fill A Vacuum, It Still Sucks.

I'm Still Uncertain About The Language Declaration Syntax.

Obviously, The Person Who Had Most Influence On My Career Was Ken Thompson. Unix Was Basically His, Likewise C's Predecessor, Likewise Much Of The Basis Of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike Was The Real Force In Getting It Together). And In The Meantime Ken Created The First Computer Chess Master And Pretty Much Rewrote The Book On Chess Endgames. He Is Quite A Phenomenon.