I found the original "C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie ("K&R") at my university bookstore in, maybe, 1980. I read it cover to cover twice on a p

I found the original "C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie ("K&R") at my university bookstore in, maybe, 1980. I read it cover to cover twice on a plane flight, memorizing it, and immediately recognized its superiority over Pascal as it existed then. Everyone who made a Pascal extended it, incompatibly with everybody else, to try to match C. Any of those would have sufficed, but none could win.