I’m at the Nobel Ceremony. If Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie hadn’t written “The C Programming Language” so so so well, which I read overnight to get the job that saved me from being homeless at 17, I’m not even sure I’d be alive, let alone here. Here’s to good writing.https://twitter.com/anildash/status/939137973240696832 …
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Reviving this thread to thank the person who put me next to Brain Kernighan at this Princeton event dinner


. (I’ve known him personally since 2012 when I was a fellow at Princeton but will never ever stop fangirling). (Also, good writing still matters for Computer Science!)pic.twitter.com/Oay5ueJ8X0
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Tell me more about that dessert plz
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