Dennis Ritchie

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/13/2011 12:13 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> The copy on my shelf is 1978.

My copy is, alas, long gone, but I got it in either '84 or '85.  I was 
working at JPL at the time, assisting a blind programmer who was busy 
doing pointer arithmetic in FORTRAN77[1].  He's the only person I ever 
knew who could write PL/1 programs in FORTRAN instead of the other way 
around.

[1]It's amazing, isn't it, what you can do if you turn of bounds 
checking on arrays and know what you're doing?