Originally Posted by
noglider
[MENTION=25132]ptempel[/MENTION], I worked at Bell Labs and overlapped with Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, Pike, and Aho. In fact, Aho was my boss's boss for a while, so I had lunch with him and stuff.
Oh cool! I heard that Aho was chair on the comp sci department at Columbia. I wonder if he's still there. He's the "a" in awk scripting language. It was named after Aho Weinberger and Kernighan.