It is with a lot of sadness that I read on Isen.blog that the once famous Bell Labs Laboratory 1127 (the lab which developed Unix and that had brilliant minds such as Thompson, Ritchie, and Kernighan, among others) will be consolidated and disappear. This according to a "reliable source" via David Isenberg. I learned C with the aid of the famous Kernighan & Ritchie book ;-(.  If this story is true, this is really some sad news... But it goes to show you how great Bell Labs was (and still is, despite this tough decision).  That is why I am hopeful that all this work will carry on...