We have persistent objects, they're called files.
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.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.