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Brian Kernighan

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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.

Across 1 conversation, Brian Kernighan ranges across Unix, concurrency, JavaScript. Unix was developed at Bell Labs in 1969 by Ken Thompson on a PDP-7, a machine with limited resources. The Go programming language, created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, is seen as 'C for the 21st century' with a natural model for concurrency.

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Go's concurrency model is based on Tony Hoare's concepts, reflecting a significant shift in handling multi-core processors.
#109Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
AMPL's design allows for separating data from the model, which is crucial for flexibility in optimization problems.
#109Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
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Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
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books

C Programming Language
by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
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Unix: A History and a Memoir
by Brian Kernighan
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The Unix Programming Environment
by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
GoodreadsGoogle Books

papers

Communicating Sequential Processes
by Tony Hoare
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