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Brian Kernighan Alive

Brian Kernighan
KindPerson
Born1942
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.cs.princeton.edu ↗

Co-wrote K&R C — the book that defined the language — co-created AWK, and coined the word Unix.

Worked at Bell Labs
Created AWK

The K in K&R — wrote 'The C Programming Language' with Ritchie, co-created AWK, and named Unix.\n\nStill at Princeton at 80+; 'The Practice of Programming' and the Unix memoir are his.

Sources

  1. cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan