The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management
Eric S. RaymondOften, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
Eric S. RaymondIn early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Eric S. RaymondThompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
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