What would our world look like without C, or UNIX? In this week’s Fish Fry, I look at the remarkable life of computer science pioneer Dennis Ritchie, the challenges he faced in creating some of the most widely-used software in history, and the far-reaching impact of his elegant code – as well as how his vision of an engineering community openly sharing knowledge  inspired the open source movement of today.

I have a Spartan-6 SP01 Evaluation Kit to give away this week, but you will have to listen to find out how to win.