Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it’s very useful.

There’s no such thing as a simple cache bug.

When there is no type hierarchy you don’t have to manage the type hierarchy.

There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it’s easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it’s hard to fix.

Rule 1. You can’t tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don’t try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you’ve proven that’s where the bottleneck is.

Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.