For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

We really didn't buy it thinking we'd have this enormous investment,

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.