Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
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- Fame57.9
- Momentum13.0
- Canada rank#231
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Born 1942 · age 84Canada
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Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language.
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