Package: fortunes Version: 1:1.99.1-4 Tags: wishlist patch Please find attached a patch to the computer datfiles to add some more of Dennis Ritchie's quotes to the files. I found that there were no quotes related to the C language and thought that it would be a nice way to pay homage to the wizard the world recenty lost.
These quotes are taken from the Wikipedia as well as from some of the interviews published in different years that are available online. Regards Javier
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of interest is easy.
-- Alan Perlis
%
+UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+C has "the power of assembly language and the convenience of... assembly
+language."
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think
+back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide
+crowd.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+To tell the truth, I don't know how Linus and his merry band manage so well --
+I couldn't have stood it with C.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+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.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+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. Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook
+up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It's a
+lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful
+languages (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone does win
+the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
+%
+Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say,
+are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
+For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
+ -- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
+ UNIX
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