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L'Unix programming contest if two programs work, how do we decide which is better? ... Last week's discussion about development languages was, I thought, both wide ranging and interesting.

Ritchie created the C programming language, which replaced the B programming language Thompson invented. The two later went on to create Unix, initially for minicomputers and written in assembly ...

Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user. Here's why you shouldn't sleep ...

Linux and Unix, for example, were both built using the language. But despite being an early programming language, created in the 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, C's popularity has dipped ...

We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...

In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.

The C programming language was written by the same people writing Unix, and it descended from the BCPL language, which was itself a descendent of Algol. C evolved to take advantage of PDP-11 ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...