[swatson741]

They certainly came up with a lot of good one-liners for this book.

I wonder why Dennis Ritchie was so infuriated though. He criticizes them for wanting simple functionality, but it's not because language is a powerful tool for solving problems it's because it limits the potential of the platform to it's functionality (which has been simplified and in of itself limited).

So this is confusing to me. Using language to solve problems is the advantage that Unix offers. But, neither the authors nor Dennis care about this? Or they do care in limited ways, but ultimately it's about something else?

[awesome_dude]

Thous shalt not write criticisms of a demigod!

[swatson741]

He's more like a juggernaut talking thru people than a demigod leading mortals imo.

[justin66]

dr wasn't infuriated. He would not have written a funny forward for them if he were.