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small point, but I was not previously aware he pronounces it KerniHan (I was aware that in Ireland it would be)

• globular-toast 2y ago
  I'm sure I read years ago that he pronounces it with a hard G. Does he pronounce it that way in the video or just the presenters?
  • jtbetz22 2y ago
    I once had Brian as an "intern" on my team. It is definitely -not- a hard G.
    • lioeters 2y ago
      Mind sharing the context of how you had him as an "intern"?!
      • dekhn 2y ago
        I'm going to guess that this was at Google, sometimes they structured visiting faculty as interns (Geoff Hinton was Jeff Dean's intern).
• heresie-dabord 2y ago
  The pronunciation is shown here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan Also note BK's preference for his Desert-Island Programming Language: "He has said that if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C." I trust that the air-gap would keep him safe. ^_^
  • fsckboy 2y ago
    >if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C evil plotting raccoon meme: strand Kernighan on an island with just a LISP machine https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/727/Screen_Shot_2019-02-26_at_3.38.50_PM.png https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/727/Scr...
    • shawn_w 2y ago
      He then writes a C compiler in Lisp. Checkmate.
      • kazinator 2y ago
        Kernighan would probably first write the simplest possible C interpreter in Lisp, so he could then write the C compiler in C and get it bootstrapped.
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  • kazinator 2y ago
    Mainly how the air gap would keep him safe would be by preventing updates of ISO C and GCC.