Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

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

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.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.