Both are great accomplishments, but I'm convinced that creators of both were on drugs and/or halucinating at the time. What advantage does it give to have the cryptic commands that exist in Unix. Or to have several different ways to declare a string variable?

>I was sad to read that one of its authors, Dennis Ritchie, has died.
>When you think that he had a hand in the creation of both Unix and C, that's a mind boggling pair of accomplishments, isn't it?