Brian Wilson Kernighan (b. 1942) is a Canadian-born computer scientist who co-wrote the first text on the C programming language, helped improve the Unix operating system, and co-wrote the powerful but cryptic AWK script programming language (the "K" in AWK refers to him). Kernighan also co-authored several other Unix programs, including ditroff. | Brian Wilson Kernighan (b. 1942) is a Canadian-born computer scientist who co-wrote the first text on the C programming language, helped improve the Unix operating system, and co-wrote the powerful but cryptic AWK script programming language (the "K" in AWK refers to him). Kernighan also co-authored several other Unix programs, including ditroff. |