There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.