Let's make this birthday one to remember.

69 years old (Born on October 07, 1955)

Happy Birthday, Ralph! Another year older and your code still compiles flawlessly—truly impressive. Your groundbreaking contributions to software design patterns have made you the undisputed guru of elegant programming solutions. Students at UIUC continue to marvel at how effortlessly you debug their tangled messes; rumor has it even Stack Overflow secretly consults your wisdom.

Here's wishing that this birthday brings fewer segmentation faults and more cake slices than ever before! May your algorithms run smoothly, may all bugs vanish mysteriously overnight, and may every lecture be as timelessly brilliant as the Gang of Four's classic book itself. Cheers!