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.
The "K" of K&R C and the "K" in the name AWK derive from "Kernighan."
(¹ 'Kernighan' is pronounced Ker'-ni-han; the 'g' is silent)
External links
Brian Kernighan's home page at Princeton U. (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/)
"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" (http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html) – By Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981
An Interview with Brian Kernighan (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/index.html) – By Mihai Budiu, for PC Report Romania, August 2000
Interview with Brian Kernighan (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035) – By Aleksey Dolya, for Linux Jounal, July 2003.
BrianW. 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".
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