My eulogy to Dennis Ritchie
In Mexico you have to go through 6 years of elementary school, 3 for secundaria and another three of bachillerato / high-school just before you can get to the University.
During my three years of high-school I was taught the C language. The first paragraphs of my textbook on C talked about Unix and some of the doings of Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson in the Bell Labs.
Once in the University, one of the first things that I did was to get a hold of The C programming language. I don't remember whether it was in Spanish or English.
Nowadays I work as a Python programmer on Linux systems. And I enjoy it. So thanks Dennis, and farewell.
#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { printf("Goodbye, world.\n"); return 0; }