One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

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

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

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