K&R's K

The other day, when I went to the restrooms, I noticed a big bunch of people crowding in the LCSR's main lecture/seminar hall. This happens frequently, the seminars are usually held by interesting people about interesting things, coffee and cookies are usually free, so naturally they draw a crowd. This time, something was different. There were people lining up the rear wall; it is rare to have the whole place filled. On my way back, I stumbled across a guy from the lab who asked me, "did you hear of the seminar now?"

It seems the news weren't spreading the official way, instead being handed down personally... It turned out that this lecture was held by Brian Kernighan himself (the 'K' in Kernighan&Ritchie, the inventors of C at Bell Labs). He talked for nearly an hour about 'The Changing Face of Programming', with his experience of probably forty years and his stature as one of the fixtures of our trade behind his words.

This is the kind of things happening to you here.