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

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

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

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

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.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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.