That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.