I might never write another line of C in my life, but the K&R book will always have a place on my shelf due to many of the reasons given by the article's author

I might never write another line of C in my life, but the K&R book will always have a place on my shelf due to many of the reasons given by the article's author. _The Unix Programming Environment_ and _The Practice of Programming_ are two other books that serve as inspirations, both as a writer and a programmer.