I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
From Dennis Ritchie
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
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