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 …
Nope. Watched him get award and give moving address to the banquet afterwards. (It is an amazing but also overwhelming moment for them and I don't normally *ever* corner folks at parties
and Nobels are... a party. LIGO is an exception, I've weak knees for gravitational waves).