... With Proper Design, The

... With Proper Design, The Features Come Cheaply. This Approach Is Arduous, But Continues To Succeed.

It's True That Compared With The Scene When Unix Started, Today The Ecological Niches Are Fairly Full, And Fresh New Os Ideas Are Harder To Come By, Or At Least To Propagate.

At Least For The People Who Send Me Mail About A New Language That They're Designing, The General Advice Is: Do It To Learn About How To Write A Compiler

Unix Is Basically A Simple Operating System, But You Have To Be A Genius To Understand The Simplicity.

C++ And Java, Say, Are Presumably Growing Faster Than Plain C, But I Bet C Will Still Be Around.