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For those that don't know who Brian Kernighan is: basically, he's one of the founders of the UNIX operating system with Bell Laboratories, and a significant ear
by blantonl 5y ago
For those that don't know who Brian Kernighan is: basically, he's one of the founders of the UNIX operating system with Bell Laboratories, and a significant early contributor to the C programming language: among other amazing accomplishments that literally all of us touch in one way shape or form today.
- chrisfinazzo 5y agoAt this point, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the students only know him as Prof. Kernighan. CS majors are certainly nerds, but most of the stuff that made Brian famous happened well before they were born. Quite a second act, if you think about it.
- alophawen 5y agoDon't forget plan9 and golang
- cogburnd02 5y ago> significant early contributor to the C programming language source? http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=info.Brian_Kernighan http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=info.Brian_Kernighan says that > Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language: "It's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work". He did help write the first device-independent troff (The original by Joe Ossanna only worked with one specific type of computer-controlled typesetter.) and helped write the K&R C book, and the K in AWK is him, too.
- noarchy 5y agoHelping to write K&R C would make him a "significant early contributor to the C programming language" to many people here.
- cogburnd02 5y agoeh, I suppose that's fair.