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.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

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

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.

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

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do