We have persistent objects, they're called files.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.