Apparently, Ritchie wrote about himself """ I . . . received Bachelor’s and advanced degrees from Harvard University, where as an undergraduate I concentrated

Apparently, Ritchie wrote about himself """ I . . . received Bachelor’s and advanced degrees from Harvard University, where as an undergraduate I concentrated in Physics and as a graduate student in Applied Mathematics . . . The subject of my 1968 doctoral thesis was subrecursive hierarchies of functions. My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat. My graduate school experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be an expert in the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural languages better than functional ones. """ I just wonder what the functional programming language landscape was like in 1968.