Dennis Ritchie , whom we all know as the creator of the C programming language passed away on Oct 12, 2011. We have lost one of the brilliant minds of mankind. I owe him this post for he has been one of the greatest inspirations in my life and the very reason that I am into programming. Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) The first time I saw Ritchie's picture, I felt him like Jesus. I would say that the divinity that his face reflected pulled into the world of programming. It was during my college days that I lay hands on his book - The C Programming Language . It is one of the most influential computer books I have read. I had read it at least a couple of times and referred it a thousand times. I felt it like a lecture by Ritchie. And so I had marked a lot of pages with comments and questions as if they are addressed directly to Ritchie himself. I had the book with me almost all the time. I even hide myself in the last row during other lectures to read the book. I felt excited re
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind. I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkbly well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. - From "The Practice of Programming" by Brian W Kernighan & Rob Pike.