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Brian Wilson Kernighan (pronounced Ker'-ni-han; the 'g' is silent; born 1942) is a computer scientist who worked at the Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK and AMPL programming languages.
Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language: "It's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work". He authored many Unix programs, including ditroff.
Kernighan was also software editor for Prentice-Hall International. His Software Tools series spread the essence of 'C/Unix thinking' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal - and most notably his 'Ratfor' (rational FORTRAN) was put in the public domain.
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Brian Kernighan is my idol and hero. Every now and then I visit his Princeton homepage and look at his email, but I'm too afraid to say hi.
comradeb14ck (comradeb14ck) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:16:04 -0000
Brian Kernighan is my idol and hero. Every now and then I visit his Princeton homepage and look at his email, but I'm too afraid to say hi.
RT @geardrops: Story: The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft -- http://bit.ly/7dy70R
kaolinfire (kaolin fire) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:08:32 -0000
RT @geardrops: Story: The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft -- http://bit.ly/7dy70R
Story: The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft -- http://bit.ly/7dy70R
geardrops (Artificial Flavoring) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:05:22 -0000
Story: The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft -- http://bit.ly/7dy70R
is reading C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hal... by Brian W. Kernighan - http://bit.ly/18NC3A
davekincaid (Dave Kincaid) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:56:22 -0000
is reading C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hal... by Brian W. Kernighan - http://bit.ly/18NC3A
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tyches (Loic Nageleisen) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:23:20 -0000
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RT @codinghorror: The C Programming Language -- Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft http://is.gd/5E20N
hevace (Craig Chapman) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:07:45 -0000
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An Interview with Brian Kernighan - By Mihai Budiu when he was a research intern at Ball Labs. Originally published in PC Report Romania, now translated into English.
Brian W. Kernighan - His Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies page. Co-inventor of C programming language, with Dennis Ritchie, and one of the foreground figures in ancient Unix history.
