Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)
@jwildeboer There's some sort of joke about the Bible and self-fulfilling prophesies that I'm not clever enough to make right now.
@jtgrimes @jwildeboer The New Testament has some passages about actively trying to fulfill prophecies, which sounds so sinisterly Bene Gesserit I'm surprised they left them in there.