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

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

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.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

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

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

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