Any Editing, Software Work, And

A Language That Doesn't Have Everything Is Actually Easier To Program In Than Some That Do

The True-gnu Philosophy Is More Extreme Than I Care For, But It Certainly Laid A Foundation For The Current Scene, As Well As Providing Real Software.

I'm Still Uncertain About The Language Declaration Syntax.

C Is Declining Somewhat In Usage Compared To C++, And Maybe Java, But Perhaps Even More Compared To Higher-level Scripting Languages. It's Still Fairly Strong For The Basic System-type Things.

C Was Already Implemented On Several Quite Different Machines And Oss, Unix Was Already Being Distributed On The Pdp-11, But The Portability Of The Whole System Was New