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

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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

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