Still have my original K&R book (Copyright 1978 Bell Labs — NOT the second edition). RIP, Dennis Ritchie.
If you haven’t tried Go yet, pick up the book co-authored by Brian Kernighan (!) and discover the “21st century C”. Best fun I’ve had in YEARS. Of course, considering that two (of the three) inventors of the language happen to be Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, you might figure that it has the same lean, clean approach to language design that us “old farts” came to know and appreciate with C. Enjoy!
My K & R second edition is at my left hand. I just used it this morning to find a nifty way to stack ‘case :’ statements in the same line in order to make my switch statement readable. My first edition K & R is at home, retired.
I was just examining a copy of “21st Century C” on a colleagues desk. It does not mention Kernighan as a co-author. It does mention Ben Klemens as the author.