Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

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.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

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

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