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

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

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

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.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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

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