C Is Quirky, Flawed, And An Enormous

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.

Steve Jobs Has Said That Xwindows Is Brain-damamged And Will Disappear In Two Years. He Got It Half-right.

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

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

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