>>Later, he emphasizes that they didn't even look at each others' code: I remembering reading somewhere (Dennis Ritchie's C History article?) that once they bo

>>Later, he emphasizes that they didn't even look at each others' code: I remembering reading somewhere (Dennis Ritchie's C History article?) that once they both programmed a solution without consulting each other, and later when they read it, the solution was exactly the same, even down to the variables' name. Power of C? Two people who thought alike? >>KT: [Shaking head] We were all pretty good coders. Which the modern world doesn't have enough of. Demand is so high that quality of supply doesn't matter, just enough to satiate the demand; which is in stark contrast to the early days, when computer science was a research field only privy to scientists and later to hackers and crackers. When it went mainstream, and grew to an industry, its no wonder that it acquired all that which comes with it.