> It appears that just like there are those that think C was the genesis of systems programming, with very little attention being given to what happened 15 year

> It appears that just like there are those that think C was the genesis of systems programming, with very little attention being given to what happened 15 years earlier This is why I think it’s important to get familiar and listen to Old Masters like Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan, John Ousterhout, and even war stories of Richard Stallman, and chase down their references and get familiar with them, too. It’s not that there’s nothing left to do, but an awful lot has been done. We can at least learn from it... > and beyond Bell Labs walls As I cite Pike, Kernighan, ... :)