"Dennis also had a deliciously wry sense of humor. He was once asked: In your experience, how long does it take for a novice programmer to become a reasonably p

"Dennis also had a deliciously wry sense of humor. He was once asked: In your experience, how long does it take for a novice programmer to become a reasonably proficient C developer capable of writing nontrivial production code? Dennis replied: I don’t know. I never had to learn C."