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Dennis Ritchie Quotes: It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.
         

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.


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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.



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... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.



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