Some Consider Unix To Be The Second

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

C Is Quirky, Flawed, And An Enormous Success.

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

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.

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