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.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

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

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.