[AnotherUnixGeek]

The computing world wouldn't be what it is today without Dennis Ritchie.

You can see the influence of C in the language conventions of the major programming languages in use today - C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Perl.

As for Unix - it's the basis of the modern computer operating system. Linux (obviously), Mac OS X (obviously), and even Windows NT and it's descendants like Windows 7 - here's Bill Gates' acknowledgment:

"And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And that’s no accident. I mean, we knew that Unix operability would be very important and we knew that the largest body of programmers that we’d want to draw on in building Windows NT applications would certainly come from the Unix base."

And remember, Ritchie kept his opening curly brace to the right of the function declaration, not below it. If it was good enough for K&R, it's good enough for us =).

[fremont_steve]

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And remember, Ritchie kept his opening curly brace to the right of the function declaration, not below it. If it was good enough for K&R, it’s good enough for us =).”

Yes - but if you knew Pascal first.... you put it below - because that is where you would put the “begin” I did, thus do ;-)

[jaydubya2]

"And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And that’s no accident. I mean, we knew that Unix operability would be very important and we knew that the largest body of programmers that we’d want to draw on in building Windows NT applications would certainly come from the Unix base."

I thought Windows NT was based more on the VMS operating system?