According to Rob Pike, your code almost never needs to take into account the endianness of the machine it’s running on. From his blog post (linked below): “The entire Plan 9 system ran, without architecture-dependent #ifdefs of any kind, on...

From Rob Pike: “I’m pretty sure the concept of a hidden file was an unintended consequence. It was certainly a mistake.” https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp

The paper linked below is a response to the classic ‘Worse is Better’, written by the guy who originally wrote it (however, it seems like he’s still on the fence). The best part (IMO), is the part about the ‘PC-loser’...

The paper (linked below) was written by Dennis Ritchie in 1979. It covers the beginnings of Unix at Bell Labs. An interesting point from the paper is that Unix and C weren’t completely planned out and then implemented but (after...

The paper (linked below) was written by Dennis Ritchie in 1993. It covers the history and development of C at Bell Labs. From the end of the paper – this is what makes C so great: “Despite some aspects mysterious...