The C Programming Language
Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft
"But at last I am going to defy the ban on speech about this thing. It was I who fled frantically out of C Recursion in the early morning hours of July 16, 1927, and whose frightened appeals for action brought on the whole reported episode."
(from
YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR January 13, 2010)