https://www.quora.com/How-did-Dennis-Ritchie-and-Ken-Thompson-who-created-everything-without-knowing-OOP-manage-to-maintain-the-efficiency-of-their-programming-work/answer/Ian-Joyner-1

How did Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, who created everything without knowing OOP, manage to maintain the efficiency of their programmi...Ian Joyner's answer: A lot of questions are based on false premises, but this is one of the worst false premises ever. Let me pick myself up off the floor. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created very little — in fact, they took things backwards if anything. They just took the credit for very sm...www.quora.com