When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.