Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

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

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.