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

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

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

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

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

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.