I just started reading K&R coming from a intermediate Python background. Ritchie's style is both simple and engaging. End-of-section practicals are labeled 'exp

I just started reading K&R coming from a intermediate Python background. Ritchie's style is both simple and engaging. End-of-section practicals are labeled 'experiments', and the hacker spirit pervades the book. Even better, the tools that I was implementing were useful and it was joyous to use a pipe to redirect the program I had just written to perform a char count hist on itself. How meta! This may sound trivial for the numerous pundits and gurus who make HN their haunt (salute!), but the feeling of joy and discovery is immediate, and the suscpicion that I will walk away from this book a better coder (:s/coder/thinker) is inescapable. Ritchie's thoughts lives on, his body is just dead. edit: %s/Richie/Ritchie/g