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throwawayfooon Interview with Ken Thompson (2011)

I never coded in the languages from your earlier post; I'd never have wanted to either. C was and is elegant and beautiful. It isn't so popular because of a AT&T. Look at Microsoft's power in the business world. Even with all their "practices", .Net still hasn't been beaten by Java in terms of popularity and widespread use. .Net is good, not saying it isn't, just so that's clear.

throwawayfooon 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten

Enjoying an activity is not equitable to one's nature.

throwawayfooon 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten

> I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much

Let me fix that for you, [I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime I feel I missed out on so much because I discovered I'm really more social than introverted]

throwawayfooon Interview with Ken Thompson (2011)

Few people can make sense out of Lisp and fewer actually like it.

throwawayfooon Interview with Ken Thompson (2011)

Which tells you what?