Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. 
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. 
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. 
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate. 
There's no such thing as a simple cache bug. 
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return 
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. 
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. 
The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago. 
Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization. 
Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. 
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. 